The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-09-25
The Yellow .ReNan .w<aaIlence---
H.aNE 10 keen Ia Oh.

s. EDIroRs CLaRToEa 4 haFe; been much
Interested in the articles you have published
i9 IssETS os sx.s sE.ns s's is
spect> very similar to the plague reyaging
many of our 70 ISssalRf eities; fSstf1dSan ex-
tract, Innm Gibbons Fall and Define
of -Lhe- Roma O., EmpiTe, describing the
sorigipA uisseIn ration and davastaL ons Of .,
fever which appeared ~ Egypt, 54z. A. D..
and eontinue4sfO fifty-two years, / deem
this case worthy OF special attention, be-
canse it suggests the EavtuI Thought, tlat
what we calf yellow fever' may same a.
character so malignant as to reSist ali obsta-
Giles OF season and climate, and rage for
years instead of "a few months. In view of
this possibility 10 say nothing of the terri
bic facts now before us. itis to be hoped that
the press. the pull ne medical faculty.
and every other means calculated to awaken
tiOnal legislation win be promptly and en-
specifically e-pployed TO prevent The intro
due ion of yellow fever. A thousand times
S Ss = s 2n r fs ftSD yis fss
ito have the, lives e6our people, in deadly
danger, apd every interest paralized, or
destroyed by visitatiOhs like the present.
What says the CLARION? j. w. II.
i Cottage Home, Sept, 1878. ;
(, ''Ethiopia and Egypt have been stigma
tized in every age, rs the original source
and seminary of the plague, In damp,
hot, stagnating Air, this African fever is
germinated, from the RHtre Lactien OF animal
substitutes and especially ffOmAthe SN~ arms
in their death than lives. The fatal disease
which depOpulated the earth in the time OF
j ustiniar and and his successors, first ap-.l
ipeared in the. .neighborhood of Potassium,
between the Serboniar bog, and the
Eastern channel of the Nile, from three
having AS it were double,p ath, it spread to
the East over Syria, Persia. and the Indies, |
and penetrated to the West, along the coast
of AfIica, and over the continent OF Eu--
fope. $3.50 But the greater NUM- Der, In /
their beds, in the streets, ip their usual oc-
were surprised. by slight fever
so slight, indeed, that neither the pulse, nor
the color of the patient, gave any signs of
the approaching danger. The same, the
peXt, or the succeeding day, it was declared
by the swelling OF the glands, particularly
I hose OF the groin, OF the aTmpits, and un- |
der the sea; and when the bois or thmors
were opened, they were found to contain a
COAL or black substance of the size of
lentil. - = - The fever was often ac-
cum panied with lethargy, or delirium the
bodies of the sick were covered black pus
tuleS4 pr caTb9nelesa the symptoms Of inn
mediate death, and IN constitutions too fee 1
bic to produce an eruption, the vomiting of
blood was followed by modification OF
tile bowels! S As,% ~ =" The physicians of
CbnstantinOple were jealous and skilful, but
their art was batfied by the various symp
toms and pertiHacious vehemence of the dis
ease ;. the same rem edies were productive of
contrary effects, and the event capriciously
disappointed the prog aOSticatiOns of death
or recovery. T. ~ ~ No restraints We're
imposed on the free and frequent inter
course OF the Roman provinces; from Per
STA 10 France, the nations were mingled and
Infected by wars and emigrations; and the
presidential odpuE WHICH Turks for years in
a bale OF cotton was Imported by the abuse
of trrde, iutO the most distant regidTtSs
Thesm0de gifts Decentralization is eXplaiR
ed by the remark of Procopius himself
that it always. spread from the sea-
cCast to the inland country; the places
which escaped the fury of its first
passage were alone exposed to the
c9ntagion Ofthe ensuing year. The winds |
nj Sht aiffuse that subtitle venom; but unless
the atmosphere be previously disposed for
IT'S reception, the plague would soon expire
in the cold, or temperate climates of the
earth. Such was the universal corruption
OF the air, that the pestilence which burst
forth in the fifteenth year of Justimar was
not checked or allevated by any difference
of tue seasons. In time its first mRligaity
was abated and dispersed; the disease
alternately languished apd revived; but it
was not till the end Of "a 'catauni Gus period
OF fifty two years. THAT mankind recovered
s4lubrious quality. No facts have been
preserved to sustain or account, or even a
conjecture, or the Numbers that persisted in
this extraordinary. mortality I,.only find
that during three months, FIVE, and at
length ten, Thousand persons died each day
at Cohstahtino ple that many cities of the
Fast were left vacant, and that in several
districts Of Italy the harvest and the vintage
withered on the ground" 4