12 Method of treating the Yellow- Fever 



pointment. I lost one out of three, or two out of five, 

 of all my patients. 



In the year 1802, led by the observations concern- 

 ing the happy effects of Olive-Oil, in preventing and 

 curing the plague of the Levant, that had been made 

 by Baldwin, in Alexandria (Egypt), and Fra Luigi, in 

 Smyrna, I resolved to adopt the practice of these gen- 

 tlemen. I thought myself authorized by analogy to 

 do so; for the difference between the plague and yel- 

 low-fever is far from being so great, as has been 

 imagined. 



I began the method with hopes of success ; but 

 my success was greater than I expected it would have 

 been. I, therefore, deem it a duty to submit this 

 method of treating the yellow-fever to the attention 

 and examination of medical practitioners. 



When I was called to a patient in the beginning of 

 the disease, I immediately ordered him to be rubbed 

 all over the body with warm olive-oil. This was ap- 

 plied l)y means of a sponge. I repeated the rubbing 

 ever}' two hours, until the perspiration began to break 

 out ; which frequently took place half an hour after 

 the first rubbing. 



If the pain in the back was very severe, I pres- 

 cribed 



R. Ess. Gran. Parodist, 

 with wlinh the affected part was rubbed. 



