Yellow Fever and Its Homeopathic Treatment (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Yellow Fever and Its Homeopathic Treatment The year 1853 will stand preeminently forth, in the medical history of the south-west, as the year of pestilence. Epi demic yellow-fever - the scourge of the tropics - began ear. 'lier, continued later, and extended further, than it ever was known to have done before. It attacked, indiscriminately, both sexes, adults and children, whites, mulattoes, and blacks, acclimated and unacclimated, townsmen and country people. It was so much more violent, rapid, and fatal, than heretofore, that some physicians suggested that it was a hybrid between true yellow-fever and malignant typhus, and others compared it to the plague. It decimated the populations of new-orleans, Mobile, Vicksburgh, and Natchez, and the mortality was even greater in some of the smaller towns and villages. The friends of hommopathy, the Rational Specific System of Medicine, the New Dispensation of Science, awaited with anxious h0pe its trial in this frightful malady. Nor was the confidence engendered by its success in cholera, pneumonia, and other dangerous diseases, misplaced in this. The homoeopathic phy sicians have had such fertile opportunities of observation, that our literature of yellow-fever will soon be rich in recorded facts and philos0phic Opinions. My own experience has been deduced from an analysis of only 140 cases, and I am, there fore, compelled to restrict to the limits of an essay, a subject which deserves the completeness of a volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.