Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-10

colors of silks, cloths, &C., some an
swering well the effect of contagion-@
being indellible, and others answering
to infection, fading-rendering immu-
nifty only for short time. So the hu-
man system, when under the influence
or exposed to the fumes of murcury,
arsenic, lead, &C., the peculiar charac-
ter of the agent is plainly manifest
to the senses. It is then only when
the cause is hidden that uncertainty
rules. But as the globule or crystal
of murcury, arsenic, lead, &C., is not
developed by their action upon the
system, no fear is entertained by nurses
or attendants of contracting the mai
ady. Why, then, cannot we arrive at
the nature of an agent, when it's effects
are similar, though its chemical for
mula be unknown.
Undoubted proofs from experience
and observation have taught me that
the germ of all spread6sag infections
common to mankind resides in human
ef1uvia, and man is the victim of his
own neglect. When once this germ is
generated it reacts or ferments with all
such matter whenever it come in con-
tact, under favorable conditions of
moisture and temperature. This is
not more improbable than the germ
that is contained in the egg of the
chicken, turkey, hawk, crow, buzzard,
&c., and generated by a longer or short
er duration of certain continuous
heat. The contents of all these eggs
are very similar or the same in appear
ance. Then there is another genus
that are hatched entirely through solar
and atmospheric inf1ueuce, viz: Tur-
ties, snakes, Lizards, frogs and insects.
So we perceive, after all, that the gen.
Grafton of the germ depends entirely
upon the quality Of the heat, for we
know full well that the eggs of the
turkey, chicken, &C., will not hatch in
the sand with the alterations of heat
and cold, caused through the operation
of day and night; and vice versa, the
turtle, snake, &C., under the continuous
heat Of the chicken or turkey. Now
for the practical results. Let us de-
stroy the egg and we destroy the germ.
Destroy the eff1uvia and we prevent
the generation of the germ or poison
which occasions the disease. An epi-
demic of infection, under these circum-
stances, can no more arise and extend
than fire burntwithout fuel. Bear In
mind that eontagion is the parent Of
the disease, whereas poison only is the
I of a digease nf iInffeection as FIRE
ent of salvation, and strychnia the
parent of convulsions and death.
The yellow fever is eminently dis
ease of infection, and belongs to the
class of diseases known as typhus and
typhoid fevers, and is generated from
human effluvia under the peculiar at
mosphere of ships in certain lattitudes,
instead of being the product of miasma
or emanations from swamps, marshes
and vegetable decomposition. The
poison that gives rise to the intermittent
and remittent fevers, (chills and fever
and bilious fever agreeable to all the
evidence we have concerning it, does
not act as ferment upon human ef1u-
via. We cannot, therefore, transport,
it's poison. But, on the contrary, we
can transport the poison of yellow fe-
yer thousands of miles, and under fa-
vorable atmosphere and temperature
light up a similar epidemic. A Won
derful and important difference!