Yellow fever facts, as to its nature, prevention and treatment / by John B.C. Gazzo.

  • Gazzo, John B. C.
Date:
1878
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    and iu Brazil the yellow fever appeared in the years 1687 and 1693, then the disease did not prevail for one hundred and fifty-nine years during that whole leugth of time. After some years it declines from its producting real effects, and recurring at iuterval periods of time and thus, on certain series of years, with seventy as all epidemic fevers do. Consequently yellow fever like all other epidemics, which have been already ob- served and reported from real statistics in various parts of the world, has its period of activitity and lay up at intervals in harmony for a space of time, between each event. New Orleans was free from it during thirteen years from 1841 to 1859, except an eudemic of ship fever or typhus, which oocurred in the year 1847, amongst emigrant passengers to the port of New Orleans. All epidemics of yellow fever are like all other, owing to no aclimation and being an inurement of benefit, once having it, and is an advantage for those persons who are to be insured, whether native or foreigner against its prevalence, although having been acclimated at that season however, which should be considered an acclimating feve r, which is to most persons a condition of being secured from the further anxiety of the future. Its epidemic aspect was of the earlier and more frequent occurrence in northern cities than in the southern cities. During this century and its epidemic wave, was never known south of the equator; on its first appearauoe in the last century, within the southern regions of countries in North America, in the siugle year 1872, more than two hundred thousand died in cities of Montreal. New York and Philadelphia, in America, and Paris, France, and other cities iu Europe, one hundred and thirty thousaud were victims of an essential disease typhoid fever. Meanwhile at times, the phenomena of fever, which seemed to prove its nature to be highly malignant in severity, in a great many parts of the world, and we have a striking illustration of the elemeuts of both, the typhoid and yellow fever, consequently, through the efforts of the medical profession and judgment are of the opiuion that the former epidemics of yellow fever have greatly ameliorated its severity. Therefore, we should look forward to a great change and per haps exemption from an epidemic visitation in our loved land for many years. There should be no panic about yellow fever, particularly in the State of Louisiana. Let the authorities do their full duty in sanitary measures of local improvement and renovation, not to hide themselves out of view through the delusive scheme of quarantine bubbles, who lie concealed in the very focus of its existence and production, and are more liable to its efficient effects on their system. Let them give to our parishes and our metropolis, the city of New Orleans, its pristine clean- liness, and yellow fever may reach and sweep across the equator without a case occurring in our State. Baltimore nod vVh«I>-