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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 507 of 653our Southern cities, New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, aeven higher North, Wilmington, Norfolk, Baltimore, and occasionally is brought even to Philadelphia and New York. It has likewise been im]..orted into European ports, Lisbon, Southampton, anSt. Nazaire, in the Department of the Lower Loire, in France; butthe fever has never been known to propagate beyond the 48° Northlatitude, nor without a temperature of 72° Fahr. It has a periodof incubation of from three to eight, ten and even more days.It is generally supposed that yellow fever attacks a person onlyonce during his lifetime, but I have known individuals in NewOrleans who had two, and one person who had three attacks of thefever during different epidemics. That this fever is a specific fowing its existence to some specific contagium by which it is propagated, and which may adhere to such fomites as woollens, feathers, cotton, letters, etc., is not only no longer doubted, butfact established beyond the shadow of a doubt by the Lisbon epidemic of 1857, and by the importation of the disease from Uavanainto the port of St. Nazaire by the "Anne Marie," in 1861, and bythe Royal mail-steamer "La Plata" into the port of Southampton,in the month of November, 1852.That yellow fever is a contagious disease, is likewise shown byDr. Holcombe's interesting report of the yellow fever epidemic,which visited Natchez and the surrounding neighborhood in 1853."The firet oases of the fever," writes the Doctor in the twelfthnumber of the North American Journal of Homoeopathy, "appeared in families some members of which had come from NewOrleans within a few weeks. The houses were pleasantly situatedin the central part of the city, and the tenants all in comfortabcircumstances. There were four distinct centres of emanationwhence the disease spread in every direction, not reaching thesuburbs until after several weeks. Many of the inhabitants whofled into the country, carried the disease with them. One gentleman sickened on the road, and stopped at the house of a friend,twelve miles from town, where he died of yellow fever. One of thefamily speedily exhibited the same disease and died. Another fledinto an adjoining county, where he also sickened and communicatedthe disease to those around him."In this manner neighborhoods were scourged by yellow feverwhere the disease was utterly unknown."In several cases which came under my observation, the families604 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.were carefully isolated, with the exception of one messenger, whowas permitted to visit the town on necessary business, and uniformly that messenger was the first attacked. This epidemic wasundoubtedly contagious."The yellow fever epidemic which visited Lisbon in 1857, wascarefully investigated by Dr. Lyons, of Dublin, who describes fivdistinct forms of the disease: 1st, the algid form; 2d, the sthenform ; 3d, the hemorrhagic form; 4th, the purpuric form; and 5th,the typhous form.http://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt