Hayes, J: Yellow Fever; Its Nature, Cause, Prevention and Cu

Excerpt from Yellow Fever; Its Nature, Cause, Prevention and Cure: The Fever, as an Epidemic, Checked in a Day or Two; As a Disease, Cured in an Hour or Two

To increase the effect Of the course or regimen recommended, and to secure its result, the poor should quit their confined, badly ventilated houses, which, during an epidemic season - a hot season - I would call ovens, and live in the open air, in a free exposure, say on the Metairie Ridge, or on the river shore. Should they not use tents or canopies to shelter them? From what? From the cold when dying Of heat! Under that circumstance, houses, tents, or shelters, are useless - injurious. Houses, I believe, were and are in tended to keep out the cold, but never should be used to keep out the air - useful in cold climates or seasons, they are useless and baneful in very warm ones. Canopies, to protect them from the sun's rays, while admitting an unrestricted circulation of pure air, are all that safety requires. When ought they to return to their houses? As soon as they felt cold. Ought not the night air hurt them? The night air is the same as the day air, only containing a little more water, which, in a hot season, makes it pleasant, and may serve to quench thirst. Well, give us the Indications which illustrate the grounds you take, the tenets you advance. Not hav ing reviewed the first Indication, as I intended, I am under the ne cessity Of giving it as it appeared in the Daily True Delta, Of August 19th, 1853. The present article, intended exclusively for the second Indication, I would not give the first until reconsidered, only that reading it will give the idea which it was intended to impart, and thereby render the second clearer, more intelligible - 4stablishing the link between them, and throwing light on the conclusion to which they lead.

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