New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-02-11
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visiting physicians to the New Orleans Charity Hosptal
President Of the Louisiana State Medical Society Member
Of the passoo- society q new orleans snss.
mi ~ Tr,ntsrs n pine strret, 1864
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We are not medical critics but this perform
ance is brought to q certain degree, within the
scope Of our examination by several facts: it is
not intended for physicians alone; it involves,
in connection with medical questions, others of
mixed nature such as drainage, trade, tempe
nature and the like; it concerns phenomena of
the highest public interest T these phenomena
are yet very i'll UNDERSTOOD even by the medical
faculty and they are here treated popularity
as we'll as medically. We nevertheless propose
merely to set forth the contents Of the treatise
and to call attention to it, rather than to,ofef
our own inadequate Judgment Of it. - y ME-.
The great point to be aimed. at is, of course
the ascertaining the causes and origin Of the
disease, with a view either to hindering its in
PRODUCTION or diminishing its yirulence.' For
what the adaFe truly saws Of all the ills that
Aesh is heir to is more especially true Of the
Yellow Fever, and of all other pestilential dis
orders that g an ounce Of prevention ID worth
a pound Of remedy The question for I'm
medical men at large is, the possibility Of
excluding this dreadful maIady: that of its
treatinsnt when once among as must be left to
the doctors. nas
Doctor Fenner, therefore, but sets out as he
should do, when he first of ali directs his tten-
ton to the settling the facts which accompanied
the original appearance of the Fever here, last
summer, and its subsequent rayages He en-
deayors to show. in the first place, that all the
precautions Of sanitary police had beer. utterly
neglected by our municipal authorities, and
that our city was. consequently. as lthily tit to
grow disease as is a hot.bed to spreut either
voluntary mushrooms or The seeds which the
gardener saws, there. in order To- force them
He next presents the atmospheric history Of the
season. that is, the monthly registers of the
barometer, thermometer, dew point, rain. guage,
ana Wlnas, from january 70 october lie pro-
ceeds to the facts as to the actual rise of the
disease; and certainly seems to prove that it
was not imported. suohiis certainly the result
of the evidence, SO far as DR.. Fenner has col
leeted i'll We doubt neither his good faith nor
his intelligence: but we are too much accns-
toned to sift the value Of Individual opinion,
net to know that nothing can be rasher than
for jury, however strong and seemingly de-
cisive the testimony Of the leading witness, to
make up its verdict, in case of life and death,
before II has heard all, The very same facts
may present q very different aspect, when com
pletely sifted. In q word, let the public listen
to DR. fenner with all possible candor and re-
speot; butietat decide on nothing until it. shall
have had before it all the evidence and sifted it
thoroughly. Then-if the fact be established
yet left undecided by much 1nyestigat1on) that
yellow Fever is never s an imported malady-let
us thlnk no more OF auarantines' out OF meas
ures q dfaining ano cleanliness only then
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