in the Malignant Yellow- Fever. 113 



with lime and mortar; but in a cottage, the most fastid 

 excremental smell scarcely remains an instant, and even 

 the smoke of a large portion of burning wood is scarcely- 

 retained. The smell of sulphur which they had just burnt 

 at the moment Dr. Lafuente was going to occupy the 

 cottage in the Lazaretto when he was ill, did not last 

 longer than the time taken to burn it. 



What a consolation for a family to know, that by go- 

 ing to a cottage or tent with a person sick of the Yel- 

 low-Fever, not only the sick person will be in a better 

 situation, which is instantly felt by those who are con- 

 valescents, as well as those who are half infected, and 

 on the point of having the fever, as they quickly dissi- 

 pate all the miasma attached to themselves or clothing ; 

 but more especially they are certain, that all who may 

 be inmates there will never be affected, although they 

 may sleep, as it were, in the same bed with the sick. 

 But the reading of the work will satisfactorily show, 

 even to the very foundation, all the incomparable advan- 

 tages which are promised by this discovery. 



Note in the Mexico Gazette, from whence this account 



was extracted. 



The Editor and a Physician residing in this capital, de- 

 sirous of propagating the knowledge of this work in the 

 whole kingdom, and particularly that Vera-Cruz may be 

 benefited by it, they have subscribed that it shall be re- 

 printed in this our metropolis. 



