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to any deeisioD as to llie qnestion of contagion^ until it 

 ■^^^s Loen commanicated to some person who had not hoen 

 on board, fr^^ him to a 



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a se^ondj and perhaps from the 

 oniH to a third. Second attacks of this disease should 



iTivariably be noted in the returns. 





tile treatment of yeilow-fever there is mo '^ assuredly 

 much to ^/userve, and much to h^arn. The effects of the 

 most vaunted reraedies should be comnnred, without 



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I.^ing sight of the natural resiliency of the vital functions 

 tG*..r(ls a stat" '^f health: this is a rule so essentially 



that not to apply it would vitiate the inferences. 



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F' ^od-]^^*''^^g, and tho nature of the blood abstracted. 



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offer a fair field for observation^ w^hilst the empirical 

 modes in wlu^' /e have been taught to exhibit mercury 

 will perhap - some experience, induce the younger 



1 . c stigate the grounds on whi ch hi 



^^ ded these questionable practices, and to 



V with the results obtained in the present 



The c f the disease when quinine, the most 



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vaiur^ -'^ ":^' all our reraedies, should be commenced, and 



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Patholosdcai :..estigationB have thrown but 



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^^mple idiopathic fever. To detect the 

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solid -^ hnvt h^;*-n explored in vain : the vital organs 

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reveal v\.. 

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scienc 

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^x, and the abdomen^ have each refused to 



:y g.^ve up their functions: to the fluids, 



: ^ ^'ifh. the additional appliances w^hich the 



> aifords, and with a better knowledge of 



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mistry, we must resort 



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