New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-08

to the heat of the sun, tIhe yellow fever should
change is type in the samemanncr, and gather
with a hundred-told power, as did the inter
mttent fcvcr" above referred to- The subject
will not bear contemplation
In the same strain. and still involving himself
more hopelessly in the meshes Of iallaeious
argument, Dr. McFarlane continues thus:
. Again At the time when the cholera made
its appearance in New Orleans. IN teo-'' one OF
the most fatal epidemic yellow feyers was IN iuli
blast'
In three DAYS frem the first appearance OF
cholera, not single case OF yellow ieNer cHlsted
in the whole city
Admitting the fact that the yellow fever dis
appeared before the sweeping blast of the chol-
era, what does it prove Simply that the in
coming epidemic was worse than the first, and
tbbt the state. of the atmosphere enabled one
terrible scourge to grapple with and overpower
another less .virulent, and to glut its own NAV
With the colleps which that other could not de-
your. That which drove out the fever was worse
than the fcver.itself The Doctor, in this con
ncction, asks:
"Were not the heat, moisture, otfal, filth and
decomposition as great three days after the APP
pearance of cholera as before
Admitting that the Z" filth and decomposition =
wcre us great, (the DR.. may have it that they
were greater, if he will, the mortality was also
greater, as the bills of health and the Dr. 5 own
experience will testify, and the fact only goes tC
hsprove the monstrous theory that dlth is favor
able to health
The DR., to convince the community that the
presence Of offensive gases operates as n pre-
yentiye to diseases, states that the object Of
those who visit the different springs, emu.
merated in his card Of the 9TH instant,
is to mbibe sulphureted hydrogen This GER
tainly is a novel idea, and one which we confess
we were heretofore entirely ignorant Of We
can, however, get none of the profession tc
agree with himon that point, and indeed com
mon sense would seem at once to give positive
contradiction to the truth of his statement II
is true that an analysis OF the waters referred
to, show, beyond doubt, the presence of sui
phureted hydrogen, but not in sufficient guam,
titles to do harm, or, if so, it is rendered EN-.
tirely innocuous by its combination with Other
gases. We were not aware that sulphuretet
hydrogen, per sc, possessed any medicinal quail
tiles.
The DR. S theory is not less startling than the
reasons which he adduces in support of it ara
peculiar. lie tells us that only twenty cases o
intermittent fever occurred in the city during
the twenty years previous to cutting away tho
trees, drawing of the water, and exposing the
swamp to the solar heat, and that in the sue
ceeding six years there was the vast increase Of
ticenty hUldred eases of the same disease in SIX
years, This is to show that mGiaria, offal an6
filth change The type Of diseases We want il,
such change in the tyr of our maladies, anS
prefer the original disease to the substitute
He insists on the proposition that filth and oifa
| retard yellow fever by creating in its place
| another malady (choleral infinitely more fata
then the epidemic which it displaces Hi
| remedy is worse than the disease he seeks t.
cure
We want no better witness against DR. MeFar
lane than himself 50 far, We have only mad
use of his own facts and arguments against hi
assumptions Should he choose to continue til
discussion, We will endcaTor, at some other time
| to produce scientific authorltcs-always pro
yided he does not furnish us with materials t.
use against himself as heretofore