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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    country, the excessive heat is the exciting cause of yellow fever, and that it is only requisite that there should be a sufficient quantity of deleterious matters for this heat to act upon, to produce the disease, the best method to retard or prevent its return, particu- larly in large cities, must be to endeavour by every means to dry up marshy spots, to fill up stagnant pools, to cleause every place engendering or containing dele- terious matters, and especially not to allow any body to be interred at any season of the year, without hav- ing charcoal and quicklime placed in, above, and below the coffin. The same precautions ought every three months to be taken with privies. The moment of danger ought not to be waited for, nor ought these pre- cautionary measures to be left to the care of tenants or proprietors; these most important and necessary duties ought to be attended to by the municipal authorities of every city; they should be scrupulously fulfilled, for the health, the fortunes, and the lives of the citizens are at stake. A good government, a good administration, should watch over these as well as over the morals of the people; it is for them to attend to these things, and not to leave them to the indifference of the inhabitants, who, like shipwrecked seamen, seldom fulfil, when the danger is over, the vows which they make while in distress. It is thus that in a short time quarantine