Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-04
THE YELLOW FEVER.
PROFESSOR SWING, OF CHICAGO,
PRESENTS HIS IDEAS ABOUT 1T.
The Union of Vegetable Matter, Heat and
Moisture Which Creates Disease-Ths
Dangers of ''Sun, Swamp and vegeta-
tion"-A Possible Preventive.

NECaitS
Dangers of 'Sun, Swamp and vegeta-
tion'-A Possible Preventive.
Yellow fever like a candidate for the
presidency, becomes in each campaign the
victim of lies No sooner had this form of
abuse began about yellow fever and dirt, yell
low fever and garbage in the back yard If
the devil ought to have his due and no more,
snch a form of justice should be applied to
the fatal disease of our south. One writer
affirms that this disease originates in the
harbor at Havana, into which landlocked
pond the filth of city has been discharged
for centuries. From that harbor the disease
is carried over the gulf by travellers, and is
thus planted in our country just as the Can
ada thistle is imported by wind or car or
wagon; that this imported disease springs up
in some negligent family and thus sets up a
foreign business of destruction.
The more evident truth is that there is
certain union of vegetable matter, heat and
moisture which creates disease The condi.
ton of the haFbor at Havana will not ex-
plain the ague which used TO shake once q
year every inbabitaut Of Indiana and Hi
nois. There was q little mill creek valley
near Cincinnati which was full of the shakes
every fall, and without the assistance OF
either Cuba or dirt. In the southern part of
Illinois many persons have died within TWEEN
ty-four hours from an attack of malarial
fever. The fatality OF the Roman fever in
the summer months compelled all the rich
families to have summer homes on thu
shores of the Mediterranean. The exc
dus from Rome each summer was as great
as that from New Orleans or Mobile.
This disease was not our yellow fever, but
it was almost as fatal and stands as evidence
that Cuba and the squalor of few negroes
are not able to explain the occasional calam-
ity in our southern states. There are certain
low coasts Of Africa where the white man
cannot live year The church attempted to
satiate this coast fever by tlinging mission
aries TO the monster, but the coast fever was
victorious, and the more recent soldiers Of
the cross have had to hurry from the ship up
to the table lands in order TO live long
enough TO convert a single pagan The 18th
mus Of Panama has in all its history been a
graveyard for all unacclimated sojourners.
The agent of death has been always fever,
tut not the yellow fever
These facts, reaching in time over period
of 1900 years and reaching in area from old
Rome to America and Africa, leave no room
TO doubt that heat, moisture and luxuriant
vegetation generate a gas that is fatal to
human life. The rainfall in these districts
is very great; in Louisiana and Florida more
than fifty inches year, while in Illinois il is
but little more than half that amount. The
heat of course is as much in excess as TO
average height and continuance. That which
is a malarial fever and ague in Illinois be-
comes intensified in Cuba or New Orleans,
and sustains about the same relation to
yellow fever that Chicago summer sustains
to the summer along the gulf What is q
yellow fever in our south is modified into a
Roman fever in Italy Rome has crippled
her old enemy by draining her marshes.
She has taken away the excess of water and
thus has taken from the sad disease its third
component part Cultivation OF the ground
has relieved Illinois of perhaps one-half of
its standing water, and the ague has almost
abandoned the state.
The fact that this disease follows the sun,
the water and the vegetation of certain par
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