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YELLOW FEVEK. 



be the use of very hot baths, profuse sweating, 

 and careful nursing. If the action of the se- 

 cernent vessels of the skin and a steady and uni- 

 form circulation of the blood throughout the 

 system can be maintained, by whatever method 

 it is accomplished, the patient will be saved. 

 The evil to be most carefully guarded against, 

 in apparent convalescence, is the morbid craving 

 for food. If allowed at that stage of the dis- 

 ease it is followed almost inevitably by speedy 



death. In persons of weak and enfeebled con- 

 stitutions yellow fever is more sure to prove 

 fatal than in those of robust habit, the disease 

 incubating for some time in the system, before 

 decided symptoms make their appearance. 

 Yet the statistics of the epidemics of it in New 

 Orleans indicate that there and the same is 

 true in tropical countries women, children 

 under five years of age, and the colored races, 

 are less subject to it than white male adults. 



