New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-18
GUANoA PREvENrIYa OF YELLOW FEVER

correspondent of the Norfolk Herald sug-
gests tat guano be tested as preventive of
yellow aver. He gives the following % the
reason d his suggestion:
take lave fact which was related to ma
by Capt u. Cooke U. NJ. whilst he was in command
Of the slppof War st. Louis, on the of Braz,i
during hswfui OF yellow some wears
He staedto that The Of tue merchant vessels
sweE OF in the awful manner and every shin
of var iu no. save the ST. Louis char the same fate
aud sne, my memory holds good, did not lose soul
This he attributed sley 60 quantity of guaro he had
purchased for his own farm experiment Wasn he
retsrnedtOme. There not more than one or two
barrels Off, aud such his faith in it preventive
that he hd 1t sted about on tins berth deck ship
We direct the particular attention of our
Board q Health to the foregoing significant
paragrsph, Maybe there's something in i'll
Who klpwss Heretofore, cleanliness in person
and premises, streets, alleys, by ways. etc, with
freauens and regular sprinkhngs Of chloride of
lime, and other disinfectants, have been relied
upon tosecure health; but as the cleanliness OF
Natcheland Mobile did mot save them in 1858
from asbad a visitation Of the yellow fever as
I'VE hadias the city was as filthy then as it could
possibly be, as it has 'tgot no better fast ever
since, and as we are now both dirty and siokIy,
suppose the experiment bs tried and the city
gaanoea forthwith!
Guam is filthy substanee-but If it will
save lifasnd arrest the progress of a terrible
disease 81 the power tperfaime) Of the article
should at once be brought to bear! What O
wonderful substance. Fertilize sand-hills and
kill the yellow fever ct the same time. Then,
again, itcould be SO conveniently handled. It
could beput up in bags of any size, and appro-
priately distributed throughout any house J;
and, if apatient was very low-suppose he had
the black vomit, for instance to effect q cure
it would only be necessary to fill his holsters
and piluw-oases with guano, or il deemed
proper, remove the blankets and cover him with,
it entirely No respectable Yellow Jack could
stand sueA treatment, and would, rs matter
Of course, incontinently " vamose the rancho"
Then, again, to look at the matter in another
point Of yiey, this guano remedy may lead to
the abolidon of guarantees, the Board Of
Health. and all other cumbrous and expensive
machinery. II the discovery be well founded,
there is nothing necessary to do to keep the
yellow fever out Of Mem Orleans than to build
a rampant of guano ell around the city! A
wall, ten set high, would suffice to keep out all
foreign epidemios and enemies, We imagine.
There would be no necessity for another An
drew jackson to protect the city against the
onslaught Of all christendom. Cronstsdt and
Ssbastopol would be nowhere 80 far as one sort
Of strength was concerned!
What would become Of the people inside the
fertilization, We cannot pretend to say, and
never expsct to know from personal experience.
as we shall leave before the first section Of the
wall is completed; but as q distinguished physi-
Dian said, in 1858, that filth did not sggrayate
yellow fever, we suppose they will be enabled to
get along g after fashion" mot, 1t will be
their misfortune, not their fault.
P.s.-A. Delagrave g. Co.. 70 Magazine street
have large supply Of this newly discovered
disinfeotant-or rather, yellow fever annihils.
tor constantly on hand, and for sale on the
most accommodating terms. The Board o.
Health. druggists. physicians and apothscariea
the acelimated, unaceiimated and the friends Of
the unacclimated, are respectfully requested t.
take notice.
P, s. No. 2.-The application Of the new med
ieine is to be made externally. +F.5r..4
The perpetrstor of the following piece O
meannsss must have been one Of the friends o.
the Blackman that We read SO much about /:
A few DAYS since q man went to the railroad
depot in HolY oke, Mass, just as the cars we're
starting, and took the shoes of an infants feet,
as part pay for o debt its mother owed him,