Medical Notes of a Trip to Cuba

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Excerpt from Medical Notes of a Trip to Cuba: An Address Delivered to the Students' Medical Society of McGill University, March, 1901The name of the mosquito is the ('ulu fascicles, and the houses in Santiago which have been regarded as centres of infection for Yellow Fever (and were destroyed by General Wood), were only so because they harbored this dangerous insect. To abolish yellow fever it is important to prevent the mosquito biting the yellow fever patient, and of course to destroy the mosquito, a procedure not characterised by any great degree of simplicity, in fact, rather a 'big contract.' If yellow fever cases can be successfully protected from the mosquito by wire screens, etc., then the mosquitos having no more patients to bite won't be able to manufacture the parasite all by themselves - ln fact it needs a combination of mosquito and patient to do this. The ex. Creta of the patient have no power of conveying the disease. Dr. Finlay of Havana long ago asserted that mosquitos spread this disease and he made experiments to prove his case.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.