Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-14
YELLOW JACK BY AN EYE WITNESS
DR.. Luppo Returns from the south-stricksn
with the Yellow Fever Himself but Battling
Bravsly in the Cause Of Humanity-Iaterest-
ing Details.

ing Details.
We had the pleasure of meeting
DIR. Luppo yesterday on his return
from the South, where he went OF
an unselfish and heroic mission Il
relieve the sufferings and minister
to the well.being of his fellow men
The silver lining to the cloud O.
disaster and epidemic which lately
settled over the South lies in the
fact that many unselfish and gen
erous people from all sections Of the
United States were found ready to
brave all dangers to assist theil
stricken brethren.
TAKES THE YELLOW FEVER HIM
SELF.
DIR. Luppo on arriving at st.
Louis selected Mamphis as the
theater of his benevolent labors.
Our readers will remember the dis.
patch which announced that DIR.
Luppo was himself stricken with
yellow fever shortly after his ar.
rival in Memphis. This was indeed
the case; but the Doctor, knowing
that ii he admitted that he was suf-
fering from the dread complaint he
would be sent to a hospital ward,
where the herding together of pa
tients infinitely Increased the dan.
ger of fatal termination, stoutly
maintained that he was suffering
from some other disease. His at.
tack and convalesence occupied al
together some eleven days. Once
released from his sick bed he de-
voted little over five weeks to
steady and unremittipg attendance
upon the sick.
THE DISEASE.
DR.. Luppo informs us that yellow
fever manifests its presence by diz-
illness, a pain in the back and legs
and a general disposition on the
part of the patient to lie down,
through physical weakness. In
the most favorable cases, and where
the patient has the benefit Of the
most unremitting and skill
ful medical attendance, and,
what is of greater consequence,
careful nursing, any one attacked
with the yellow fever vomits twice,
at least. Here is the critical point.
TX the vomiting is not checked at
once what is known in the vulgar
parlance as the "black vomit,"
called by physicians hemorrhage,
superyenes. This black vomit fol-
lows from the Inflammation of the
small vessels of the stomach. In
cases where the disease is fatal it
lasts from five to seven days.
CAUSES OF THE MEMPHIS NOR
TALITY.
DR.. Luppo surmises that about
three thousand people have died in
Memphis from the yellow fever.
He ascrlbes the prevalence aud fa-
tality of the disease there to i'm
perfect sewerage, to the fact that
the water which the people drink
is derived from o river which has
Its origin in swamps and to certain
general facts at which we shall
briefly glance.
RECREANT DRUGGISTS "A Rad sYs-
TEN.
DIR. Luppo says that, during the
period of his service in Memphis,
which was at the height of the ep-
idemic, there were fully sixty ply
siclans engaged In ministering to
the sick, each of whom must have
had an average of fifty patients. !.
To supply this army of invalids
only two drug stores remained
open in Memphis. All the other
druggists closed their establish
ments and fed, with their assist
ants. These noble exceptions were
the Messrs. Battiere and Renkert,
the former of whom soon himself
sucoumbed to the disease. Fancy
two druggists, with their assist
ants. obliged to serve out medl- :
eines for at least three thousand
people who were In tho throes of a
mortal disease! DR.. Lupp, COM
plains that both the Howard Asso-
citation and the Relief Committee
of the city were inefficient in that
they did not offer liberal rewards
for druggists from abroad to 60 to
Memphis, and that they neglected
10 force open the drug stores anc
dispense the medicines therein,
Keeping an account Of and ulti'
mately paying for them.
OTHER DRAWBACKS.
DR.. Luppo says that the Howard
Association was not all that the
people who furnished it funds ex-
pscted. He thinks that, hereafter
When outside communities make
contributions towards q benefcenc.
of the kind, they ought to sent
agents along to supervise the ex
penditures. The Howard Associa'
ton were lamentably deficient il
all the attributes of o sanitary po.
lice and slmoners of the public