West Indies, butcher's fever, which occurred two years since, 

 [1875,] in Jacksonville, Fla., about the market." 



Under date of November 20, 1877, while his article was part- 

 ly in type, he adds — " Yellow fever has been proclaimed in Jack- 

 sonville, and in such a manner as to cause the most false ideas 

 and groundless apprehensions abroad. " ' He adds that " not more 

 than five cases have occurred, and in regard to tliese, some of our 

 most experienced physicians express the greatest doubt." But 

 it seems to be consistent with the code of medical ethics, to doubt 

 and deny if thereby the spread of disease may be prevented or 

 checked. The materia medica includes moral as Avell as physi- 

 cal poisons, experience having shown that they are the antidotes 

 of fear. A medical man from Boston, told us in Nassau that 



Dr, of Nassau, could not be much of a jjhysician, for if ho 



was, he would not say that yellow fever existed there, even if it 

 did in fact. 



The magazine Avriter refers to the exemption of St. Augustine 

 from yellow fever for fifty years during its occupancy by the 

 Spanish and British authorities, and to its prevalence in 1821. 

 We were assured that cases of this disease occurred in St. Augus- 

 tine a few winters since, and some cases are occasionally to l)e 

 expected perhaps in all cities not favored with frost. 



He says that "in 1822, the yellow fever was introduced into 

 Pensacola, by a cargo of spoilt fish being cast upon the wharf." 



That, ''when the yellow fever prevailed in the town of St. 

 Mary's, Ga., about 1808 — a place of great general health — sucli, 

 he was informed, was the state of the atmosphere, that beef, 

 twenty-four hours killed, fell from the hook by putrifaction, and 

 water drawn from the well in the evening, was in a state of mu- 

 cilage next morning." 



In 1878, the yellow fever prevailed at Port Royal, and we were 

 there told, that fifty persons died of the disease. And yet, the 



