Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou.

  • Plantou, Anthony.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    form the charm of their whole existence; in fine, the inhabitants of the country enjoy all the happiness of life. But in Havanna, the air is so impregnated with putrid and infectious miasmata, that great numbers, at- tracted from all nations by commerce and the hope of enriching themselves, fall victims to the yellow fever. The causes I have mentioned, when speaking of New Orleans are almost the same in Havanna; with this difference, that in the latter city, the air may much more easily be purified, if the municipal authorities would employ the means which humanity loudly calls for. It is here to be remarked, that in Paris, in 1554, the suppression of the Cemetery of the Innocents, was ineffectually demanded, and it was not till the year 1785, two hundred and thirty-one years after, that a resolution was taken to remove from the city that focus of putrefaction, which caused every year epidemics more or less afflicting, according to the proportion of putrescent materials, and the degree of heat in concert therewith. Previously to taking this step, the people had often offered up prayers to heaven, to relieve them from the scourge of pestilence; but they did not reflect that God has not said, that he will, at our desire, change his laws, which are immutable; that, for our asking, causes shall cease to produce their effects; were it