The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-08-29
Is It Catching?

low fever.
AZ have scarcely ever known OF
an attack of cholera that did not
occur in the night. l have known
it to slaughter almost entire faml-
lies that slept in the story near the
ground, while those in the stories
above them were perfectly healthy,
There are numerous houses in the
city, that / can point out now,
where occurrences of this kind hap
pened in every cholera visitation we
have ever had in Louisville. A ia
miliar one was seen by Dr. Lieber
and myself on Hancock street. The
cause of cholera, deadly as it is, has
no power in daytime. Soon after
sunset it becomes deadly to tue
sleeper.
R-"Haye you any apprehension
of yellow fever in Louisville~
"Long experience and observa-
ton have disarmed me OF every
vestige of fear of the cause of inter
mittent, remittent and yellow fever
and of cholera in day time. There
is not one fact in the entire science
of medicine that / moro perfectly
know than that the cause Of each
of those diseases cannot act in the
daytime. The British Government
does not permit a boats crew to
sleep at night on shore in a tropical
or equatorial latit1de. The orders
of the Admiralty are peiemptoFy on
this point The law should be uni
versally in all malarious regions.
You remember the instance l
quoted from DIR. TroUter's Medi-
Gina Nautica, a great British york
on medicine, an instance where the
crew of the English war vessel As
sistance were detailed to get wood
and water for the vessel at st,
Thomas. A part of the crew were
permitted TO sleep on shore while
attending to these duties. Trotter
was sergeon on the vessel. He
States that after the vessel went to
sea, every one Of the crew that
slept on shore was attacked by yell
low fever and died, while the re
mainder of the crew retained their
health. This is only one Of many
hundreds of similar occurrences.
l have seen repetitions of it in hun
dreds of cases OF intermittent fevers
and in cholera. / have never been
in a locality capable of producing
yellow fever, and do not expect to
be while / remain IN Louisville, but
1 am as positive of the truth of the
law about yellow fever as in either
of the other diseases. Sir John
Carr says that at Malaga, under
forty two years of observation, in
many epidemics of yellow fever
there, it had been universally no.
ticed that the bakers who left NAL
aga before night and remained In
the country universally escaped the
disease, while those that remained
in the city died of yellow fever.
Merrill. physician intimate with
,ellow fever, says he has never
Known of an attack in a person who
worked all day in the locality but
eft it before night. Davidge and
Potter of Maryland, distinguished |
n their intimate knowledge of yell
ow fever. say the same thing. De-
'eeze, Rush, Reece, Caldwell, Sim
ms, of South Carolina, all state the |
anne fact, and about it | entertain |
10 more doubt than l do that 1 am
your question.
R,-"Is yellow fever communica
i've from one person to another in
his latitudeT
mo, sir. You could scarcely |
me more by asking me
knew my own name. We have
ever mad any of the catching
ind of yellow fever here. There
re few,if any, of the old physicians
f Louisville who are not familiar
18th the disease, and no one of
hem ever saw even a single speci-
len of the catching. variety. L
ave been acquainted for forty five
ears with the yellow fever cases
hat came here from tropical lati
ldes, and in my exposure l never
aught it, nor have l ever known
ny nurse or attendant on case
nat caught it, DR.. j. Knapp had
typica! case that obtained lodg-
lgs on the point DIR. Knapp
lys that there were not less than
lirty persons, men and women,
no nursed and visited the case.
he man died with black vomit, I
ut no one took the disease from
i'm. DIR. Ronald attended a case
Graham's Hotel, and 1t was
ursed and attended to, but neither
r. Ronald nor any of the atten
ants took the disease. Professor ,
. r. Palmer attended a bad case,
hich he found dying, just after
the city from the South, /.
4 the corner of Ninth and Jeffer- !
IN streets, but neither DR.. Palmer
Dr. the attendants had any sign of
le disease. | have attended a
amber of cases here. l was in ,,
lie quarantine grounds at Staten
land, where the yellow fever pa !
ents were detained. / conVersed
It'll them and shook hands with
EN- without n shadow of fear. |
as at Brooklyn, under the Heights,
1856 when the disease was raw.
ing that part of Brooklyn, but l a
as no more apprehensive of O
it, than / am of catching t
e tooth-ache. l know this to be n
ihvulnerable TRUTH shall new a
catch yellow fever, until l sleep "
night in q locality where the il
use is in operation, If this city Q
Md revive trade and business as a
silly as it can avoid catching vel r
" fever, prosperity would come b
tn all its blessings upon it. Why b
en- if the fever were to spring G.
in Louisville, it would find more a
nited quarters than cholera ever
and here. There is scarcely a
OF in the city that would furnish -
nest in which it could lodge. For :,
e present this ls all l care to u
y about yellow fever" a.
the Democracy Of Giles CO'ty. i
Convention of the Democratic par al
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