in the Malignant Yellow -Fever. Ill 



escape, or even overcome the attack, in those circum- 

 stances which were less favourable ; and in effect Laf'u- 

 ente, who quitted the bark the 20th of November, was on 

 the 4th of December seized with a suspicious fever, which 

 was dissipated instantly by taking six ounces of bark in 

 forty-eight hours from the chill. The Chaplain and Phy- 

 sician who had attended the sick, and omitted the pre- 

 servative, on the 15th and 16th of December, were at- 

 tacked in the the beginning of January, and both imme- 

 diately stopped it ; the first by a pound of bark in forty- 

 eight hours, because his fever was very violent, and he 

 was determined to be secure ; the other, having been 

 more slightly attacked, was cured with six ounces in the 

 forty- eight hours, and one ounce the following day. 



Lastly, it is fully proved by the same documents, that 

 a person having the Yellow-Fever, who is with his at- 

 tendants in a cottage or barrack in the country, however 

 small it may be, does not communicate the infection 

 to any one. At the time that the sickness prevailed 

 in Barreos, the families that remained in the houses 

 lost in some of them two or three persons ; the con- 

 tagion also prevailed in a fine hospital that was obliged 

 to be opened in a corner of the town, on account of the 

 prejudices of some of the sick, and from which they 

 were with their assistants ultimately obliged to fly, finding 

 a safer asylum in the country cottages ; at the very same 

 time there was not a single instance of one assistant fall- 

 ing sick amongst a hundred which attended the sick in 

 the Cottage-Lazarettoes, which were established at can- 

 non-shot distance from the village, where each cottage 

 or tent had only one sick, with their friends who chose 



