Second report on quarantine : yellow fever : with appendices / [by the] General Board of Health.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1852
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    Or, tTiP breakin<^ out of tlie fever the population of Barce- lona wscomp^^^^^^^^^^^ 120,000. Within the walls of .the town were found medical men, who, disregarding the evidence of rhe'r senses, closed the door against all evidence ^/a.^^^^^;^]^ to contagion,-adhering only to tradition. Indeed being often threatened by punishment iVom Government on the one hand, and ty popu^^^^^ tumult on the other, , they are obliged to yield t^o ?he^most absurd errors, from which humanity becomes ^^t:t:?rra'cC^^^^^^ of W -dical men at B celona and of the foreign physicians then assembled, a goodly conwas formed, resolve/to show loyalty to the profession^ From amona these, a manifesto was issued, signed by. ten Spanish pl^ysicians, iwo French, two British, and one American, t^ the effect that the disease was not contagious.! . Dr Piguillem, who states that he had been considered as the ^^vrince of contagionistsr was amongst the number of ^lios-e who subscribei; iJing (together with 1.3 other Baxce o- p^^^^^^^^ tioners, who then also changed their opimons) adopted non contagionist views some time after the disease had Fejaikd.^ ThLe who are interested in the ^.-^J^^J,!?,^^^^^^^ information from perusing the work of Dr. O'Halloran, p. 67. An event remarkable in the history of Yellow Fever, occurred * Extract from O'Halloran on the Yellow Fever of the South and East Coasts of Spain, p. 110. « Origin of the Yelloio Fever at Tortosa in the ijear 1821. « The disease according to the latest official reports of the authorities and Board of nlalth ppea^^^^^^ thlperson of Salvador Cnr.o a soap dealer,^-ho sailed from Barcelona on the 1st of August, and arrived at Tortosa on the 4th. _ _ Barcelona ^ ' _ « ^he first marked case at Tortosa appeared in the perlL'ofatam^Sn'ltTBr^^^^^^ hi« Pntr^^ncp he held no communication with Salvador, nor witn any oi nib idmiiy. died on the 15th, with the usual symptoms of Yellow tever, viz., yeiiownesb, ^XSn het;s!''S Unexampled cruelty of the Board of Health towards BulL^ve^ntura Puid/was not suffered to pass unnoticed. The mih ary gove^^^^ Don Sel Haro, supposing that its conduct was a species of rehnement on Sal^^not sanctioned by laws either human divine reinoustra ed n^^^^^^^^ oroceedh gs,and preferred a formal complaint to the Political Chief of the piounce, S in S probability, treated it with little attention; for the FoPJ'^litV has' propriety of treatinga fellow-creature, while under disease with suc^^^^^^^ not hitherto been a subject of investigation m the province of Catalonia, at 1 am informed correctly.