Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1879-10-18

INV add something to he cause Oh SAM les
turv science: ut all events it IS CRAFTY fc'
;nm to know that we are on the same sh
track with the ablest physicians OF the ye
,y. and with Your indulgence l Will an
here ouote from the N. o. Times, nat fl,
t,, ,bvsicians of Rio have decided Upon til
+hc subject and published 10y the san Ia e(
nv commission which are full and inter
estipc. They report that previous to id
1850 yellow fever was unknown III hlo. n
I'll is port for century or more had oeeh al
opened to all the cities Of til" world Its 81
commerce had extended to all the yellow t.
fever regions, particularly to the coast OF tt
Africa in pursuit of slaves with Havana, t
New Orleans, ST. Thomas, Hayti and I
jamaica, its communication was in ev- I
| cry month and every season OF the year. !
| There was no quarantine, no preraut'on- Z
ary measures to prevent the Introduction {
| of the fever, and yet suddenly i'll the
| ear 1885, this epidemic, i'll its most Vlo-
lert forn broke ont in Rio, and in every
mort in Brazil How did it originates
What was the remote or prcNlmatc
cause? DIR. II. Lallemant reasons thus.
He says: I inquired many years since,
, how is it that the yellow fever should
never be cngenlercd in Rio de Janeiro Z"
: There is no knowledge in the wof!d
!, which can tell us what are the causes
that produce yellow fever. Tho fact
is generally the margins Of tho Nile are
the cradle of the Eastern plague, so the
" yellow fever generally is generated and
is remains endemic or, The borders OF the
re Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea-.
We see in this gulf, sea strewn With
n islands and rocks little affected by high
VI tides, shores to great cxteut SO douoG-
% full that in some places it cannot be SAID
where the solid land begins-we see VAST
swamp plains covered with labyrinth
of ayiunnias raulinas and shizophoras'
beneath tho mysterious shades OF winch
millions Of crusracea and nelltes anu IN
fusoria are generated, die anu putl'iS'
Various large rivers aud numerous small
or ones discharge their waters into the
vast bav, making on its borders thai
mixture of fresh and salt water, the OK
halatious of which, through the whole
world are to be feared, and are fearful!
pro!itic of the seeds of noNious tevers
various species, ASCENDING to inc othe
pathoncnetic causes existing in that pal
ticular locality. III the Central Amer
can gulf which receives and deposits tn
refuse AID impurities of the greater pa'
of the Atlantic Ocean, where the brlrnll
tropical sun pours his vertical rays, thel
are few places in the world where are s
many elements of putrefaction are con
ION bined. Perhaps only the delta of the Ga1
ges and that of the Nile in its perl"oic
overtlows can rival that OF the gun
= Mexico in general and that of the lo"
Mississippi in particular. Ana thus
1yo have conjoined the great trumvlrate
, iusnlubrious river causes that OF tl
~ Nile, that country of the plague Il
) At Gan.-es that of the cholera, and
AS Mississippi. which has already generat
;., so many epidemcs Of yellow fever"
It has been shown that Rio has
UGH caped the epidemic for a century and }
The it's location was similar and it was 81
)em. rounded with all the natural eau
,;ok- which generated the epidemic III OIL
places The great morbitic causes,
'or'' saws were always there, but not sui
the iently strong to create an eplden
,onal Some other extraordinary and import;
ones were necessary to complete this !
'0o"' mentation on the shores and to Gener
|eiil- the epiIemic Of 1850. Meteo1olo2l
a Sc conditions brought the final procreat
the causes and called into actual life
morbitic-ger1n, At the commencement
''' their summers in November, daily in
sent afternoon, thunder storms occurred
eOple pious falls of water precipitated the
~ nm rrefying atoms floating in the air
sw ept them out of the city. These I'll
'"0 IA ms kept the city healthy. Three
four years anterior to 1850 these rains
came less frequent, and ceased III l
Here, then was a change in the elm
4co1t1 conditions No rainfall, no thunder.
BILL, washing ont of the streets, no precll
Henry ton of the putrid atoms of the at
meet Diere and no torrent to sweep out o.
ten by city the putre1ylhs ni'.'e'
ri and He saws: elf we find an indublt
t;on of predisposition to yellow fever in the
graphical conditions of the bay, t
!, and were completed by the want OF thu
ttee. and rain, and by the heat necessarll
accept creased by these indicated dehclent
anitary cit would be, he says, very cir
I nave scribed idea if we should still pers
cot for the opinion that the yellow fever
at or imported and was propagated by II
cd con- of contagon." To prove that it wa
sting i'll contagious he cites the towns OF 1
We have polls, elevated about two thousand
IT, In to which many Of the citizens of Ri
able to +o eSc,oa the nestilence. they c: