The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1878-08-24
Special Correspondence of the GLOBE
Democrat.

New Orleans, La, August lit is 7
q sad fact that the finest cities OF the
South are those most subject to an
mai visitations ofthat dread scenrge,
yellow fever, and the mre 'poraous
and beautiful those Southern marts'
the greater seems it ravages Wherever
It has got a foot-hold. 1t is now Of
ticially acknowledged that the ma'a- S
dv has 10 this city assumed proper h
tiHons that preclude hopes of STAMP 0
inc it OUT with the carbolic acid dis
infection plan found to be effectua'
with the first cases, and before the
disease had become epidemic Dis, /
guise 1t as they may, the people OF s
Kew Orleans, which hatches every ,
endemic in the South, are ~ blame
for the present. and former ineurs'"ns
of the dread enemy, 1t is beyond
doubt that the vessel that arrived
some considerable time ago with two
cases of yellow fever on board from
an infected port, was the cause OF the
present outbreak. yellow fever
never originates here. 1t Is always
brought, generally from Havana,
where they have it all the year round
The people of New Orleans in refus'
ing to temporarily injure little com
merce and trade by quarantinlns sns
picious vessels, will now have to sub
nit to stbe vast detriu,ent of the'r
trade witilthe interior ON acconat OF
the declared presence oftheepidemic.
Not only.has New OrlmIls, I by,sher
negligence, in allspr"babi!ity,, ruined
her own trade for the fall, but she
has allowed to he introduced through
her nortals disease which, accord.
ing to all We know Of its habits Will
yery likely spread in the interior
railroad and river towns. Inc SUD,
denness with which the number I"
new cases aud deaths have increased
for the past week shows the c"nd''
tions necessary for the pr"pasa''""
Of the malady, whatever they may
Le, are favorable for its spread.
CAUSES. SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT
As there is now alarm in all the
Southern cities subject to its inr"ads,
a few facts from the best and latest
authorities who have had personal
experieucs with the disease mas be ~
interest to the readers hf' tie G'"oe'
Democrat. A day or two of Ia"g""r
aud bad feelings generally precede
an attack of yellow fever. Then
comes a chilli much like that eof com
mon ague, bit Accompanied ~ pain
n the head and spine. The chill last
from a few minutes to few hours
and constitutes the first stages, or thai
wherein the morbific causes ages:'q ga
dingstlie systems Tho sneSt ls e.!
febrile3 stage which follows tbes chill!
Generally it is not of a very h'gl
grade, the pulse being loO.
a distinctive symptom and char
acteristic of yellow fever is suppress
sion of the urine. Another symptom
which can be readily recognized D.
any physician, nurse or other per
son who has ever been with yeIIo'
fever patient, is a peculiar odor o
musty smell from off tife patient, an
which can even be perceived in to
streets during an epidemic TITS IN
describable and belongs to no othe
fever, and with doctors experience
in yellow fever is of itself. sqthc'en
for a diagnosis. The patient show
that the poison has also struck IN
nervous system; he is tremuloo'
easily excited, and startled by tn
least noise. Tile fever RACES general
from twenty -four to forty eight hours
the sufferer becoming delirions an
ravins in large proportion OF case
Ifasked why he screams ne can CIV
no adequate reason. Usually on til
third day the fever abates, and tne'
is a. cal1n--the third lstage &c: =,
lasts; from 3 few hoars ID I Id1ss az
is the turning point OF the d'seas
This calm ends either in convale
cepce or else in the fourth or fat
state, that of collapse or black voml
from which not one in fifty ever r.
e eo"e up WI wSil f eteat; looks i'll
coffee grounds, and i' the deaf" wa
rant of
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About the fourth or fifth day
ewes turn yellow. The skin, also, {
sumes q ysnowuessl likei that of
\ > bruise, or a bright jaandice yello
However, the patient does not tn
yellow in more than one case Ia S
As to the causes of the scourge,
old atmospheric theory has gone
the board, and the best writer's Ut
seem to have settled down to the
lief that the poison is Of aDimalcn
oriein-these anlmalcules generate
and spreading over surfaces Ii
grasshoppars, I}0H 'Gatel'Alats, a
being, introduced into. the hmm
blood. IfiheJ exist, the most pow
fal miscroscope has hitherto been {
able to discover them. Que fact I'll
seems. to point to their existence
ithaeIthe same extremes Ut AeatI a
cold that. kill other insects also X
yellow fever, whose coutagion can
exist and becomes innOcuous at
and 212o.. Yellow fever ia alw'
killed out after q good freeze. Y
low fever never spreads above
feetabnge fhe sea )eSktX Aee'lts'
cation does not prevent, and no
son has q second attack: The per
,ofirncubation is generally f"ur to u
aays. thouch persons have b
known to- carry it In. their sss
twenty.three days and then taxi
Without treatment seventy five
of every huadred will die. "
treatment add good nursing, howe
about one in three is the average u
tality. u the great I. epidemic !1..i IT.. Sf