Yellow Fever 



An Inedited Manuscrip by Dr. Finlay 



With a preliminary note by Dr. Juan Guiteras 



Preliminary Note 



At the recent meeting of the American Medical Association, Dr. James 

 Carroll U. S. A. read a paper under the title of "Transmission of Yellow 

 Fever". (Journ. of the Am. Med. Association, May 23, 1903). Dr. Carroll, 

 who is an ex-member of the late Commission of the U. S. Army for the 

 investigation of yellow fever, whose work cannot be too highly praised, 

 raises in this paper the question of priority as to the mosquito theory. We 

 believe that his judgement has been biased by the sprit de corps, for in 

 this paper he attempts to lessen the glory that belongs to Finlay as the 

 pioneer in all this good work, and he seems further to forget the participa- 

 tion that our countryman, Dr. Agramonte, had in the recent demonstration 

 of the mosquito theory. 



Drs. Finlay and Agramonte have answered Dr. Carroll (Journ. of 

 the Am. Med. Association, June 13 th. 1903), and the latter has replied 

 to Dr. Agramonte (Journ. of the Am. Med. Association, July 4th. 1903). 



Dr. Carroll compares the part played by Finlay in the recent disco- 

 veries on yellow fever with Dr. Manson 's work in connexion with malaria; 

 he informs us that Dr. Manson has given Dr. Ross all the credit in the 

 latter discoveries, and pretends that Dr. Finlay should also surrender his 

 claims in the field of yellow fever. It appears to us that Dr. Carroll is 

 not well informed in the history of the recent great movement. Dr. Manson 

 and Dr. Finlay are indeed comparable, but not on the grounds of Dr. Ca- 

 rroll's argument we hould rather place them both much above the other 

 meritorious workers in the new field of research. The glory of Manson 

 does not rest upon the recent investigations in malaria, the credit for 



1) Revista de Medicina Tropical, Habana, t. IV, 1903, p. 121. 



