Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-20

know that 2 countryman Of th ts.''e .
the veteran DR.. Jackson. now II Z. ssa
on the verge Of seventy, went :, -, osls,
rally, and at his ewn expense H., ..ant.
$500 to the scene of this fev W.. !.s
vastations, in order to ascertain ~ "a.
er or not it was contagious, ,nS Sa '!
were the most effectual mode. AZ VIZ
meDt. He has just published ~. ss'
containing very curious and imn ,s.aa'
observations on this dreaded eu ssas
tits consolation to know IT,, u's =!
very able and experienced pbs s. aa
has proved, very satisfactorily ,i.,aS
disease is Of local origin that ;,s.a
was imported into those countris. s a's
it now RACES; nor is it possible, .l IS's
that it ever should be Transported ,S.ss,
to any distance among the state, i !,
vicinity. Popular prejudice h.,ina sa'
signed the disease foreign origin >. ~
ular terror ha, clothed it in u H,Tp
of the most virulert contasion W.,
this last error has so divested th,,, 'a
pie of common humanity, that moi i nv
are the sick and wounded aband,"
to their fate, but those who fy tos.
open country or mountains, (wh,,a
fact, the malady cannot exist, NM,
less propagate itself, are treated IL.
contaminated deserters from ps,,bs,.
pital, and either left to starve Or on, :.
death by their barbarous countrvn,n
1t is consoling, however, to be certain
land it is most certain, that f.u
weeks more,-that is, the approach ]
cold weather.-will cut off the sour,
of the epidemic, (which could no, B
the case were it common contaeiop |
and thus annihilate, at least for a .s
son, the disease itself.
In proof that the disease is not wn
sonally contagious, DR.. jackson b,ina
forward the following among other ~
thentic facts-''In the year 1900, When
upwards of ten thousand people died At
Here's de la Frontera, sixty person,
were employed to bury the dead. Ths
buriers entered the houses where th
dead lay, took The bodies in their arm,
often in loathsome state, put them ID
to the carts in heaps, and drove then
to the place of interment. None Of Ii
buriers were infected" A somewhl
similar event happened in the year Isl
at Saint Lucar. The buriers Of 4
dead having shamefully abused The
office, the friars of the Franciscan ca /
vent most nobly volunteered the int,
ment themselves. "The Offer" mn
DR.. Jackson, was accepted and to
frisrs, on entering on the duty thsyha
thus imposed upon themselves, fouHa
the majority of the houses, or sick =
partments, deserted, the bodies Of th'
dead lying in various pastures upon
beds, or on the floors. They wrapped
them ia sheets, or in such othere'Vs
ing as presented itself in the apartmsa,
carried them to the Bier 10 their arm,
and afterwards in tie bier on thu
shoulders to the grave. Not one 0fa
meritorious band was attacked byb
disease" In short, from the record''
the past, and the evidence oftteP"
sent, there is not the least reason y
doubt that the epidemic now ravagns
Andalusia it ofthe same nature, thopsA
perhaps more violent in degree, assh"'
which have, in autumnal seasons, sP'
peared in the same places, at longs 70
shorter intervals, for centuries laf
poison, or malaria, which produces m
disease, is the product Of the soil lt'sL
elected by particular seasons; and %
fever SO generated, if directly eSp0iu
to other countries, could not there
propagated, for want of its PrinH
pabulun.
Such is the opinion Of Dr. Jacfsa
who visited the dying, and eSsm' u.
with his own hands, the dead, 90 "a!
as in October 1920. 1t is also the 0PnsE
ion of the most enlightened Ensa
and French physicians who nave '" W.
ted the unfortunate theatre OF 1herE
thence. Excepting the inconvenl',,sl
no harm apparently results IRON IN
quarantine precautions adopted 2!
neighboring states; but the e0 ;0ds
conviction, impressed on the mln ';',,
those residing in and near the >. NV 4,
towns and districts, gives rise Via
most deplorable events, a - '. u,p
the unhappy sufferers Of all :ue es.nd
consolation from even their p', ,;r,
friends or relatives The oP''II ",a
of nature, however, and the re' ..ia y
of the seasons, will soon put 8 P''
the ravages of the epidemic; -, nm
HUc InUNSON, Nv