The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America / by E.H. Barton.
- Barton, Edward H.
- Date:
- 1857
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The cause and prevention of yellow fever at New Orleans and other cities in America / by E.H. Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![eminent and reliable medical authorities of the living and the dead, as our vouchers for the facts they have* recorded and the deductions they warrant, when applied either to them or to our own special testimonies. It is these deductions which constitute and authorize the results we have prochiimed; and these results constitute the bases of the principles we have pro- mulged and maintain in relation to the origin and causes of and the preventives and remedies for the extirpation and ex- tinction of yellow fever. Looking then, to the momentous interest we represent in this first great sanitary movement in the South—inviting the utmost scrutiny into our facts, principles, authorities, and the corollaries we have deduced—we only expect that confidence to which, we humbly deem, all are fairly entitled. If, upon such investiga- tion, the recommendations are found reasonable; if they are in Kairexaraina- accordance with the science and the well attested experience of tion and im- the present enlightened age ; then we hope there will be no hes- mediate tnai. station in putting them upon immediate trial. The let-alone system has been tried long enough; it has filled and darkened with a deeper gloom the domicils of the dead—cast adrift mem- bers of our cherished population—restrained and still restrains large and valuable accessions, and has checked and impaired our advancement and thrift in every branch of industry. The trial has been full and unsatisfactory. All unite in saying there must be sanitary reform ; it is written in indelible characters on the age. Health is the greatest of earthly blessings; the rules appli- cable to it are reduced to a science; it is denominated Hygiene ; it is governed by princi]|fes and regulated by laws, almost as Laws of ppg^ige ^^^^ gxact as those attached to any other department of iieaiui estab- g^-g^^^g^ -g ^j^^^ ^^^^^ science of life; it teaches men how to ^ ^ live, and how to prolong life, and when properly applied, it has pf civilization ' ^ to ' ± i ./ 11 > increased its average duration for terms averaging from ten to twenty years, and surely, this is worth striving for. It is now fully understood, and the most enlightened communities and nations are adopting its principles, and applying them to prac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20402521_0136.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
