Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-17

and Savannah where the new prOphylac-
tic methods have stamped out yellow
fever.
The disease-so named from the yellow
or lemon color Of it's victims-prevails
chiefly, in tropic-
Prevails Chiefly, al and warm eli
in Warm Climates. curing in tenn
perate or colder zones, it has been Inn
ported in the course Of commercial travel
1t is Indigenous chiefly in the West In
dies, the upper coasts OF South America,
the borders of the Gulf of Mexico and
the southern United States. 1t occurs in
isolated. sporadic cases at all seasons in
seaports to which it has been transported
In ships Rigid quarantine Of all ships
coming from yellow fever localities, and
their fumigation before disembarking
passengers and cargo, have often averted
or minimized q threatened epidemic. Frost
or freezing weather invariably stops the
scourge, and persons who have recovered
from an attack are thereafter immune.
The negroes of the south, although sus-
ceptible to malaria, which in turn Is also
a mosquito disease, enjoy relative i'm
munity. Yellow fever has no periodicity-
that is, alterations Of febrile periods and
remissions From the onset Of the attack
to it's remission 1t is a continuous fever.
Yellow fever usually commences sud-
denly, generally in the night or early
morning, with sense of coldness, q
rigor or actual shivering followed by
vascular reaction, as shown by the heat
and dryness Of the skin. headache. es-
pecially over the eyes, and pain of the
eyeballs, which are suffused and have q
strange drunklike aspect. The limbs and
loins are painful. the tongue is loaded
and it's edges are red. There Is a peculiar
and characteristic flush or suffusion Of
the face, occupying a zone of about an
inch above and below the eyes. Nausea,
gastric uneasiness and tendency to
vomit soon supervene. These symptoms
may gradually lessen, and the patient
will then regain his ordinary health in
twenty-four or thirty-six hours.
The disease in fatal cases usually ter
inmates on the second or third day. There
is no specific
No Specific treatment once
Treatment Known. aeve,one1 an a,s
remedies do not control it. No depressing
remedies are employed in treating it. Cold
and evaporating lotions to the head may
waters, or champagne in small quantity,
and other remedies for composing the
stomach, are valuable. Carbonate of
ammonia may help to oxygenate the
blood. But quiet. discreet nursing, warm
drinks aud blanketing, and, later, album
dant nutrition are the most successful
means of cure. The mortality varies with
the character of the epidemic, the class
e cd hot hive To
surroundings and the discretion with
which cases are treated. 1t may be as
low as or as high as IS per cent.
Vera Cruz and Havana used to be re-
garded as nurseries OF yellow fever. From
the month of March to September, or Oc-
tober the disease ragged like a pestilence
among recently arrived Europeans and
those natives who descended from the
elevated table lands Of the interior. Until
1893 the disease was regarded as having
cal peculiarities operating on European
and unseasoned constitutions. but the
doctrine of infection suddenly started in
the year when the disease appeared wltn
great yirulehce III the Island Of Granada,
and rapidly spread over the Antilles to
Philadelphia and many parts of Pennsyl-
vania. to Massachusetts,. New York. Caro-
line county, Md: Alexandra, Va; sew
ersl counties in North Ths oaf6rssk and
preceded by the arrival OF vessel
from Bulam, on the west African coast,
at a harbor in Grenada. in which vessel,
when stationed OF Bulam, yellow fever
had prevailed about nve months before
to a great and fatal extent.
:
Nearly every city OF the United States
on the Atlantic coast having maritime
commerce or COM
Scourgs Common mu mum with
on AtiaAtlc Voess dian ports has at
some time or other during the past 200
wars, suffered from or been threatened
NV the yellow fever scourge. Usually the
nest does not thrive in a temperature of
less than - degrees or north of IS de-
erees or above an elevation Of $500 feet
from sea level. Hence the cooler eastern
i -. .....ail., immune alfhoa,uA, ana.