The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-29

rapidly Increased. He referred 10 tho syn.o
toms or the fever at Ocean SPRINGS. B,,cxi
ETC., where the fever xas pr,reded n,
uengue. He degnoscd the cases \. Cal,
| weston as havlAs albumen In the urine
| nemorrhagic tonaencics. etc. He describe,
number OF his patients there, s,me O.
whom had been seen BY DR.. Guiterss and
pronounced yellow fever. These cafes bav
al the symptoms. aibumon. disparity b.
tween pulse and temperature, cuated
tongue. with red end and edges, ,cteriod
hue OF the skin, pains In the mend and
back, limbs and joints. and epiSsstre
pains He referred to the cases that bad
been reported upon BY Drs. Randall snJ
Trueheart. He gave the history az The
lsovejoy and Eva Dunsans cases and ,e-
icrred 10 the reciprocal visits between tne
boards OF health OF Houston and Caves
ton ana their final joint report, wherein
they called IL Anomalous cases or deng, G. .
and yet recommended that II be kept under
strict surveillance and isolated. no traced
the history OF the embargo to trade aud
commerce, and yet this vas ia tho face OF
the opinion OF the majority Of the rhysI-
clans of both Houston and Galveston that
thore was no yellow fever in cj;fcr CITY.
He complimented DR.. Snitstts as a ply 81
clan OF experience and man o. unim.
peachablo integrity. II vas an epiiemic
Of dengue into which mild eases of vel NV
fever had crept at the close. Wneu New
Orleans was In the throes OF COZ. ,etc
tio-up and Galveston was reaplng Il cor
responding commercial beacit as 4 ie'rlt,
the people We're In high glce. They wanted
Dr. Guteras TO come and give further .m-
phasis 10 the declaration that thee Was
no yellow fever In Galveston. III, came
and was lionized was pandcred to Ly every
body. When, however, after an tnv,stisa-
ton, he reported that there was yellow
m, IA M l.i
He was charged with being an e,nlssary OF
New orleans and that he had been sub-
sidized to close up Southern ports IN the
interest OF Northern outlets.
In speaking OF the case or Wade, VINO
died at the Galveston Hospital oil back
yomit, he was put down IN tae mortality
reports us dying from uremia. AS TO the
Infection of this one case the physician
who attended It was taken vita what was
called dongue, with albumen In the uiino,
There were several other cases n e. Vts-
ton put down az dying from nrp,ia Or
Vests conclusions were that II was n
dongue epidemic with n lot OF mild ceres
OF yellow FEVER mingling In at the lat'er
end of II.
Dr j w Scot, Of Houston was pul down
to discuss these papers. He complimented
both DR.. Morris and Dr. Wost on the able
presentation of their cases, but he differed
with them as TO their conclusions,
He said shat the settlement of this
question was too important to he treated
lightly and should be considered aud dis
cussed in all its phases
III anything should be Accomplished
said he "by establishing the fact that
II was yellow fever 1t viii n, least have
a good effect by putting us IN position,
upon the recurrence Of such an epidemic,
10 take the precaution OF isoating the
iirsb case and thus prevent Its again be
coming epidemic but we mugh first OF uil
be convinced that " is yellow fever before
we Ind II necessary TO take such action.
II dtnguc and yellow fever are so indis-
naked as the gentlemen wo1a
have us believe. II would be great dctrl
ment 10 tho literature of these discusses 10
have 1t thus confounded.
Another important phase Of the question
Is that II we can be convinced that what
has recently occurred was yellow fever,
we viii then be In "A position 10 take the
precaution to prevent Its spreading In the
future, hut hy whom and how axe we TO be
convinced of this fact7
Il Will put Or, Gniteras on the stand
In evidence He came to Houston on
October II and discovered three cages OF
yellow fever IN one mans practice That
same man told me that he had three
more equally well defined cases. thus there
were six cases In his Individual practice
and II this be true there musG have been
at least 800 cases OF yellow fever In iIous-
ION, ana that, too, at time before Dr
Gcitefas wenh there
The speaker referred 10 an editorial nv
Or. Blair In the Southwestern Medical
Record. diagnosing some forty odd cases
which were pronounced by New Orleans
physicians as being yellow fover. "There-
Tore, enid he, III these facts are to be
accepted as true. we had yellow fever In
n nm fs.sN,. g. -. 1 An
anne. and Il was going hand In hand--so |
.minent physicians tell us-with an cpl
lemic OF dengue. Or. Guiteras says that |
tongue and yellow fever are two distinct |
pathological processes. II this be 80 and, |
~ contended by the gentIcmcn, we had two |
Instinct epldemcs In Houston. | can say |
hat II came under my personal observation |
nat IN the came house, in the gnmn |
'onm and in The same bed wero pcrsons |
sho had the two distinct types and yet |
10 one had both diseases. No gentlemen
All u what you may, the disels that
Prevailed In Houston last September was
NE and the same
Yellow Fever spreads systematically
nd mcthodcally. We can trace its IN
ection along we'll defined lines. The dis.
ase mat we bad spread everywhere. II |
opnd Its way into low aud high attitudes
long commercial lines OF travel as we'll M
long the country roads. and Il exiated
ihiuiuaneohsiy on the gulf coast and in
ne Panhandle, spreading like wild1re.
Ms t. the mortality unon which DR.
iorrts lays so much stress, admitting. ns
e alaitns. that we had thirty deaths. we
$50 had $4,000 cases OF this fever. and this
inmates all idea of yellow fever epi-
emic from the standpoint ot mortality. AZ
re rttle town of Edwards. MISC. with
my 1000 Inhabitants. there were tlrriy-
ne deaths while in Houston With G5 0G0
fopie, there were only thirty deaths. ac-
prIins to Or. Morris own statement.
MY observation was that the mortality
e had IN Houston incident TO this disease
'as confined chiefly TO the extremes IN !
ic-,the very young and the very old.
'cath from senilits is characteristic re- !
UT OF The dengue Again. those who died
houston wefa thee Who had lived
limated
= mother thing that goes to disproyo {
nat the prevailing disease vas yellow fe |
er ~ that yellow fever. rs every one |
nows, Is very Frustrating IN IT'S rffccts.
nd yet s9 out o. l00 nj The cases IN Hons {
On were treated with coal tar prnduots |
lrh Ia. =