Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou.

  • Plantou, Anthony.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IT Havanna, New Orleans, and Charleston would, like the West Indies, be the constant seat of this terrific disorder. The causes of disease are much less numerous than is generally supposed; and, I repeat it, I consider the excessive heat as the parent of all putrid and malignant disorders. I therefore conclude them to be different in degree of malignancy only, according to the quantity of miasmata floating in the atmosphere, and the predisposition which may be present at the time in the animal economy. I therefore trace the genealogy of these diseases as follows: 1st. simply pu- trid ; 2nd, putrid and malignant, which are the ty- phus, cholera morbus, some insidious and epidemic fevers, violent dysenteries, scurvy of the first and second degrees of violence ; and 3rd, highly malignant, which are the yellow fever in all its grades, and the plague, which, like the former and other high fevers, varies in degree of malignancy, according to the proportion of matter existing in the individual, favorable to the ac- tion of the deleterious and fatal agent. The last mentioned disease, which has for ages made almost annual ravages on the borders of the Nile, where it has its origin, is caused also by excessive heat, and the deleterious exhalations arising from the filth and ooze which that famous river leaves exposed on its subsiding, as well as from the swamps and ponds 3