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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![the 40=» North. It embraces, I am satisfied, an extent and accuracy of observation, a patience of inquiry, an amount of experience and skill, and a fullness of facts, illustrations and reasonings that have never before becju applied to the subjects of which it treats. Your name, Dr. Barton, will go down to posterity connected with these subjects. That your efforts may prove the commencement of a new era in epide- mic, endemic and infectious diseases, and may contribute largely to the mitigation of their prevalence and virulence, and in bringing them under the control of the enlightened and intelligent physician is the earnest wish of, my dear sir, yours, , Extracts from Letters from Dr. Q. Bettner^ of New Yorh * * ' * • ■ * -Y: -Vt * * I cannot commend your labours too highly. I regard this report as being the most profound, as conveying the mostrational and philoso- phical opinions upon the important subject of etiology, that has ever been compiled in this or any other country. From Prof. Forshey. * * * -It % -* * * It is a contribution to knowledge and public welfare. This report is quite without a parellel in the scope of my reading. All sides of the questions of contagion—importibility—domestic and foreign origin, seem fairly represented; and the varied phenomena of outbreak and subsi- dence may be read, and the deductions made by the candid reader for himself. And, without speaking very positively, I think that most of these will arrive at the general conclusions stated by the Commission. New Orleans should be proud of this book, and the edition should have been large enough to be widely distributed. Your first diagram, or chart B, is one of the most instructive and interesting sheets, (if not the most so) the volume contains. Indeed I am not yet done studying it. The relation of the '■drying poioer^ to the two great epidemic diseases, would appear to be in an inverse ratio. Did you not tell me that the meteorology of the epidemic portion of 1854 gave the like result? [I did.] The diiFerence in the temperature in the sun and shade, is a new enquiry —or rather, a new key to some important sanitary influences. I have never seen a systematic representation of this great difference at the epidemic period, until in your charts. Every one in the habit of watch- ing his own sensations, knows that in September, particular!}^, this difference of temperature is insalubrious. I have, for many years, watched my sensations, and avoided these extremes. Extract from a Letter from GcnH Jno. Henderson of New Orleans. * * * * * * * I have read with an interest, surprising 'to myself, your forthcoming work, modestly styled a '-Be/jori'—on everything connected with the sanitary condition of New Orleans. It is a monument of scientific](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20402521_0014.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
