The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-28
YELLOW JACK.
How it Feels wRen Yom Get i'm His
Clutches--HOw Nice IL Is Wien Won
Get Out--A New Theory of the Birth
of the WemSR.

CIutches--HOw Nice IL IL When YOU
Get Out---A New Theory of the Birth
of the emo
The saffron fend whose chosen abOdes
are on the west coast Of Africa and the
West Indies; whence he occasionally
stretches a icau finger to our happy land.
once got hold of me. why he let 20, I
don't know. 1t was Il terrible Shakc-up,
although being at the end of 4 tcrv
severe season, the people Of Belize, Brit
ish Honduras, where | experienced the
delicate attentions Of The tropical Bcclzc-
bub; said it was "a mild attack"
It had Imen q bad year for yellow
fever. Sixteen out of the few white
residents had Succunibed in fact, every
case WAS fatal, But in the latter end of
September Mt one supposed it possible
there could be any more of the scourge.
However, whether | contracted germs in
New Orleans from the fruit-saturated
hull Of Il Ahhustering schooner, or direct
ly where | was, ] got my first warning
while slowly sailing in Il Facht one calm
Saturday in October. 1t was frightfully
hot and our little yacht, the Breeze,
wooed the zcphyre to little purpose, and
| o had a bad headache, which
Il substantial lunch Ga second break
fast" as they call it out therc), washed
down with Bass ale, no doubt, didn't
improve. However, | felt all right soon
after landing, a little languid or 50
and the same the day after. On Monday
we started Oh ctr return with the same
heat and lack of wind. Then | had to
lie down to it, and was hardly sensible
when helped to the house. Then came
the chills. Currents Of air blown
through bellows worked at the north
pole could not have inflicted crueler
cold. Ny physical thermometer must
have registered 500" below zero, the rat
tic of my teeth might have made the
''bones, 'Of the MINISTRIES Cnvious, and the
agitation ofmyframc might have worked
the sewing-machincs for the largest shirt
making establishment in New York.
shook and shivered, and shivered and
and felt deathly sick, then, all of
a sudden, came fushes of intolerable
heat. There were a few alterations of
extreme cold, and then the blast-furnace
of Satan was fired up to its fullest capa-
city. The fortunes [ endured for the
short space left me of reason are hides
cribable by any pen short of Millions.
And then ensued insensibility. | was
like a dog for a fortnight, and was I'M
CONSCIOUS of, or at any rate | have not
the smallest recollection of, the slightest
pain but to tine lookers-on the log was
not like one On the peaceful woodpilc,
but rather the kissing, ~crSckling, glow
ing, brand on the hospitabic hearth. My
recovery from this active stupor seemed to
as sudden as my fall into it. They tOlo
ne / had been given up by the doctors,
md, as it could do no harm, had had
poured down my throat,
which | seemed to like do yet. This
treatment, then considered very unortho-
tox, no doubt saved my life. | slept,
,erspired, and awoke as lively as an in
ant, and as weak, yellow, ~shriveled, like
bag Of old parchment filled with bones.
Then came the joyous days of Cohva-
escence, the cheering visits of friends,
he gradual building up of strength, the
of internal cleanliness, as if ones
zones had been subjected to q Turkish
tath, and the appetite. First checked
tantalized with "slops," then more
GENEROUSLY catered to with chicken broth
nd soldier-crab soup (Which pervades
ne through and through, till linen is
tanned yellow, as with turmeric, consid-
a very Strengthening thing by the
people, and, indeed, a specific for
onsumption), the scrambled eggs, san
aree and chocolate that would float a flat
ON. And then encouraged with every
hing substantial and appetizing. 1t is
lmost worth being i'll to feel how good
is to get well again.
The treatment of yellow fever, as of all
evers, was very different twenty years
go to what it is with English-speaking
hysicians now. The Latin races still
There to the butchery of blood
and other ~old-fashioned prac-
ces. When / got yellow fever,
hich went slow with me, and was painful
lstead of fatal-it usually reaped its
with rapidity-my windows were
osed, and / was mufied up in blankets i,
nd sweet spirits of inter poured down
y throat to promote p~erspiration, while i,
le craving for water was ~disregarded. 7
was against the old rules to allow :
.uch drink in fever. How idiotic this
seemed now!
In concluding, | will just mention an .
lea as to the origin of yellow fever, .
hich | have not heard or read of. 1t b
that it was developed on board the
ave-ship which carried herds of rotten .,
egroes through the horrors of the mid i
G passage to be sold into slavery in the
est Indies, became endemic in the tor !,
d climate OF the West Indies, was taken =
lex by the ships to Africa, and the q
rms have since then for centuries lain c
d in the timbers of vessels, whether C
adingin slaves ornlore innocent freight.
ow Is it that in Burmah, the west B
asst of India and east coast of Africa, a
ere is no yellow fever? The climate S
precisely the same, The same vegeta-
IN, temperature, etc, prevail, yet yell m
W fever was unknown in Jamaica till in 81
by Hindoo coolies. They came ri
the eastern coast of India, where cl
e climate is very dry and hot. So far, re
ere has been no direct communication
tween the West Indies and the west
ast of India or Burmah. | believe, if o.
ere were, that those lands would be - -
llcted with the scourage Bs well. This 70
only a theory, but it seems to be Il
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