The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-27
YELLOW FEVER EPlDEuuCS.
Interesting Information Concerning
the Disease.

YELLOW EEt Elk EPaDEuICS.
Interesting Information Concerning
the DIscasc.
Concerning that fearful scourgc, yellow
fever, now ravaging the southwest, many
| popular fallacics exist. and in the sections
liable to be visited by it opinion is divided
as to its origin and the methods of prevent
ing it. The mercantile communities Of the
South have no faith in quarantine and
the newspapers, .rcprescntingl in this
case rather the business men than the pco-
| pie, cry out against them as n positive evil.
Yet We find the people of interior towns
enforcing quarantine during the prevalence
of an epidemic, as at the present time, by
stationing armed guards at the railway de
| pots and the preponderonce of evidence
| goes to show that yellow fever is imported
into, and does not originate, in the South
ern States.
1t is frequently asserted that Gen. But
| Ter kept New Orleans free from yellow
fever during his command there, by the
enforcement of sanitary regulations but
| it is the opinion of those well-informed on
| the subject that to the blockalng squadron
is due all the credit of keeping Yellow Jack
at bay. Filthy streets. stagnant water and
| like nuisanccs may accelerate the spread of
yellow fever and kindred diseases. but
| there is no proof to show that they origin
ate the first named scouragc. The writer
has had some experience in yellow fever
| epidemcs. and is fortunate enough to have
survived them, and to be able to-day to de-
scribe
THE EPIDEMIC OF 1867.
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present simply certain facts and incidents
time. 1t may be said at the outset that
there is proisely no disease concerning
which the doctors differ SO widely as yell
! low fever, and none in which actual eXpc-
riencc is so essential to ensure successful
treatment. Indeed, a creole nurse will
| pull Il patient through when nine medical
| men out of ten, dependant ON book learn
| ing alone, would fail. The great danger
| lies in the disease not being taken in hand
in time. On the first symptoms appearing.
such us headache and pains in the back and
limbs, the patient is given dose of castor
! oil, and the feet are immersed in hot mus
tard bath, as much of the body rs possible
| being bathed at the same time. After hay
ing been rubbed perfectly dry the patient
| il put to bed, well covered up, and given
hot tea to drink, made from leaves of the
orange tree Fresh air may, indeed should
be. admitted to the room, but care must be
taken to prevent the slightest draft upOn
the patient. If perspiration can be kept
up the fever is soon broken, and then per
feet quiet is essential to recovery The
slamming of a door or any sudden and viO-
lent noise will often bring ON relapse. and
been known to cause almost instant death
The New Orleans Times of Sept "a. 1867
mentions Il case in point
We were yesterday reliably informed OF
a case which curiously illustrates the ner-
vous susceptibility of patients of yellow
fever cases. even after they have passed
what is supposed to be the crisis of the dis.
ease. On saturday night last MIR. F.
was considered by his physian rs out of all
danger, and was told that he could have his
clothes changed ON Sunday morning. Al
late hour il the night gulf steamer an
nounced her arrival as usual by firing run
and the report gave the patient neryou:
shock which caused him to expire in the
course of FIVE minutes That" said he
lis my death shock The startling utter
anco proved prophetic, He turncd Owe
and died forthwith.
Stimuants and cooling drinks are freely
administered during convalcscence, for TIN
yellow fever is terribly prostrating. ant
recovery from it very tedious and painful
ooYcERNlNG THE INFIurNcE or FROST
on the disease, writer in the PiedyHn
Curing the epidemic of 1867 said he hat
had experience in nearly all the epidemic
of The p,4at forty years, and with one eX
ception Ito theUy has stood the test OF oh
scrvation That exception was stated b'
an eminent physician oi New orleans II
1917. The epidemic of tLat y"ar hayln!
come at very early period. tl,s,c wa
much dependency, growing ont OF the De
lief that il must continue until frost Tn
pbysician in question then declared tina
cpidemics last but twelve weeks under an.
circumstances During the first four week
they are on the Increase, during the mex
four they are at stand-still, with Sigh
nuctuaton. and during the last four the
are in decline. when they die out frost q
no frost.
DR.. Charles Delery of New Orleans, in
pamphlcrpublishcd in 1868, also declare
il an erroneous opiEion that no conclusion
: can be drawn from meteorological pht
nomona. lie disproyes the Introduction q
fever from abroad, rs do most OF the med
cal men of New Orleans, their theories /
this instance running counter To the fact
riLTm DOES NOT GENERATE YELLo'
FEVER.
1t has been generally supposed that II
filthy condition of New Orleans has II,
only generated yellow fever, but t nded I
increase its vrtulence. DIR. Warren Ston
in lecture ON yellow fever delivered
New York in 1867, said that yell W fev'
was disease peculiar to warm climate
and was the result of something purely II
nj .xlial tntnIlu Iiuaral tlp