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WHAT  IS
YELLOW    FEVER ?
rip,  JjIWntion  and   jjgjLtvxtifi,
WHETHER IT IS CONTAGIOUS.
BY
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   JACKSONVILLE, FLA.:



FLORIDA UNION BOOK AND .JOB ROOMS.
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1878. 
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 12.75
Entered accoi*ding to Act of Congress, in the year 1877, by

                 AUGUST BUESING,
                            Jacksonville, Florida,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at "Washington, D.
  C.  All rights reserved by August  Buesing, Author,  Jack-
  sonville, Florida. 
          PREFACE.

  Kind Reader : For  the  love of mankind, and
for the benefit of the human race, I have written
a few lines considering  that dreadful disease—the
Yellow Fever—in the hope that, if they are of no
value to the reader, they will, at least do no harm.
  Health  is our capital  and our highest earthly
interest.    Once destroyed, health cannot be  re-
stored again to its natural state.   If health could
be restored again, it  might be possible to restore
the  ashes of  a  tree  to its natural  state and
that  cannot be  done;  it is impossible.  It is  ab-
surd for us to  believe in that  which is impossible.
  I would beg the reader  to take an interest in
this  little book,  and  endeavor to draw the atten-
tion  of other  people towards it, as  I am positive
that  it will result in great good to all  who  may
read it carefully.
                 Yours truly,
                    August  Buesixg, Author. 
 
                PRAYER.
  Almighty  Father,  We pray of Thee, forever
to see that we do the very best.   O, give us wis-
dom  and truth;  make our  hearts  as  white  as
snow; let us resolve with all our hearts,  with  all
our power, to be relieved  of  stains and sins.  We
pray of Thee for health, long life, peace, liberty
and happiness.
               ANSWER.
   Seek, and ye shall  find; knock, and it shall be
 opened unto you; for he that seeketh .findeth, and
 to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
   Blessed are they  which do hunger and thirst
 after righteousness, for they shall be filled ; blessed
, are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 
        CONTENTS.



A G ood  Result.....................................   8
Appropriate Remedies...............................  21
A Reminiscence of Jacksonville Taventy Years Ago---  52
A Simple Cure for Drunkenness........................  85
Argument..........................................  99
A Steamer Has Yellow Fever.......................  101
An Account of the Yelloav Fever in the United States
  from 1693 to 1820................................  104
An Appeal for Medical Freedom....................  115
Author............................................  107

Bread vs. Beef....................................  10
Board of Health Meeting...........................  77
Baking............................................  84
Brilliant Whitewash...............................  91
By What are Contagious Diseases Knoavn.............  94

Catarrh...........................................   12
■Concussion Theory..................................   32
Cause of Diseases...................................   75
Confession.........................................  110
Concluding Remarks................................  Ill
Contribution.......................................  112

Danger of Meat Eating..................■...........    5
Deafness........................».................   13
Diet for Children..................................  13 
                     CONTENTS.                  VII

Disinfectants......  ............................    87
Disease a Crime....................................  9*7

Effect of Diet on the Liver......  .................  36

Fernandixa Encouraged.............................  69
For God's Sake, Help Us............................  50
Flood Story.......................................  60
For Dinner........................................  85
For Supper........................................  85

Great Excitement..................................  5S

Health Preserved..................................
History of the Author's Life........................ 113
Hoav  are Impurities Detected in the System...........  40
Hoav  to make Wholesome Graham Bread or Biscuits. ...  84

Is Yellow Fever Contagious........................  42
Is Yellow Fever Contagious...... .................  46
Intoxicating Liquor................................  72
Imagination........................................  73

Letter...........................................  38
Letter............................................  78

Months of August and September.....................   4

Nature's Laws...................................... 145

Origin of Yellow Fever  at Port Royal...............  59
Origin of Yelloav Fever.......       _ _...........   1
Origin of Yelloav Feater...........................  14
Oat-Meal Soup......................................  83 
VIII
CONTENTS.
                                                   144
Petition for a Medical Commission....................
Prevention..........,............................
Prevention...........................................
                                                    79
Poison is the Cause of Diseases....................: • •
Pure Atmosphere...................................
Parties  from Contagious Districts....................  9-

                                                    47
Quarantine............................•...........

Syringe, Where to Buy it.............•.............  ^
Steam Bath.........................................

The Origin of Yelloav Fever.......................   1
The Passage of Food and Poison......................  19
The Concussion Theory.............................  32
The Wisdom of Women...............................  62
The Cause of Diseases.................... .........  75
The Author.......................................  88
The Cause of Sickness and Death.....................  89
The Cause of Fumigation...........................  95
The Atmosphere Has Yelloav Fever.................. 101

Vaccination .........................................  77

What is Yellow Fever  ...............................  39
Wisdom  of Women..................................  <'>2
What Must I Do to be Eternally Happy..............  71
What is Evil.......................................  71
Why is  a Beggar an Evil  Sinner....................  71
What is the Cause of Yellow Fever................  27
Whitewash........................................  91
Yelloav Fever Non-Contagious
9S 
          the:  ctrtgtn

YELLOW    FEVER-.
   For the sake of mankind, and for the love <kT
humanity, allow me to ask  you, "Can  any;,: isag^;
here exist without a cause or reason for it ?'" feiiaiS
we study, or shall we not  study, why this  iisr aju^
why that is not ?
   Is it a sin, or is it not a sin, forme to i»v.esti^a3uii>
the origin  of yellow fever ?  If it is no- s-irij. tB*?o
let me ask you, " Why does a man become dr>xs&iv?r
Is it  because  he  has partaken  of  into vlc^lLarsir
liquor?"    Where  or  when the disease  Ihragcai
as yellow  fever  originated is no more a  myst&rK
to me than that of a man becoming drunk..
   Why do men get the yellow-fever ?  It is citi«c—
count of irregular  and filthy eating and drmkic^j*-;
unwholesome food ; uncleanliness of the body/..Sa*-
gether with inhaling an unwholesome atmosgfeesiK*,
that has become effectually poisoned.  Why;' sI&ms
not a man remove  the cause and prevent-tbe-Kf- 
 ■2          OKIOIX OF YELLOW FEVER.

 YecU?  Is  it because he desires to  get the'yellow
 fever?  It  would seem so.   For  that  cause  lie
 eats and drinks unwholesome food,  neglects wash-
 ing his body, neglects to remove and bury the de-
 caying matter around him, and necessarily he must
 .accept the  consequences which follow.   If  people
 have  no desire to contract  yellow  fever, all  they
 have got to do is to  prevent the causes which pro-
 duce it.  So  with men who have no  desire for a
 : state of intoxication. All they have to  do is  to
 ■:i\tfif\ the cause by  abstaining  from intoxicating
 drinks.  This is the only remedy  that I know  of.
 Nature's laws are unchangeable.  Just think of it.
 First  partaking of  all  the filthiness, eating and
 IrLuking unwholesome food, being constantly sur-
, rosuided by dirty and  sweaty clothes, and decay-
. ing, rotten bodies  that are all  forcing into  the  at-
; uiospjiere their disagreeable odors.   Look  at the
 men who  inhale  them; look at their filthy, un-
 washed bodies; look at them now,  little by  little
 they change their liealthful complexions into sickly
 ones.   Look  at a  man of this character as he goes
 rto -bed, complaining of incessant  pain.  Look at
 his desire for  the doctor, whom he  believes  to be
 his Saviour,  similar to the case of a sinner who
 e.vpects to  be  saved from the penalty  of  his sins
 by the Lord  Jesus Christ, who, he believes, knows
 and provides remedies for these dreadful penalties.
 Just think of all this ;  is it not awful ?  A photo-
 graph of the whole  could tell a complete tale. 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
   The  people have got no more business of being
taken   sick  than  a  young  man  has  of being
drunk.   One isjustasbad as the other.   It is all
improper indulgence, lust  and pleasure.   The dif-
ference is  scarcely perceptible; in  the one  case
eating  and drinking  unwholesome food, inhaling
an impure atmosphere, neglecting to keep the body
clean,   produces its  penalty  of suffering,  until
death  comes and gives relief.   In the  other case,
the  drunken man  has to bear the  natural  con-
sequences  of his own acts;  he has indulged  in
dissipation,  and must accept  its  very  natural
results.   I>y our  own  irregularities  avc  secure
the direct  cause of disease, and Nature's penalties
are suffering and death.   There are but  few who
seem to know or realize where all pain and suffer-
ing  come  from.  I  can see it all as  easy as you
can see a gold  dollar.   No man is  really able  to
secrete anything.   No person can falsify himself.
Every  human  being must  be  taken for what he
really is; they must be known for what they really
are, and not expect to be identified by the new and
beautiful clothing they may chance to wear.   It is
not the clothing that  makes  a man so  very re-
spectable, but it is our good, kind and moral deeds
that make us holy.  It is living in rigid obedience
to natural  laws  that makes us  happy and  secures
our health and long life.   Those women who par-
take of sexual  intercourse and afterwards make
use of  poisons  and  instruments in  the vain en- 
-±         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
deavor  to  conceal their  crimes, and  prevent  the
effects of pregnancy, are no more nor less than raur
dresses ; as such they are recognized here on earth
and  in  heaven, while man is recognized as being
an accessory to their crimes.
  You have no more business to suffer the penalty
for crimes committed against the laws of the State
than you have to suffer for offences against Nature's
laws. You have the power to avoid one as much
as you have to keep clear of  the other.  If you
commit  an evil deed, you must abide by the conse-
quences.
  Hereafter I will  make my  readers at  length ac- .
quainted, where, when, why, how and what  the
true  origin of yellow fever is, together with what
I have learned, observed, and know by experience,
relative  to this dreadful pestilence which torments
the  citizens  of the South each successive  year.
This  I will communicate to  you  if you desire it.
MONTHS  OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND
                  OCTOBER.

  This is just the time of the year when continued
fevers  abound.  Typhoid, typhus, typho-malarial
fevers, and in some districts, yellow fever, carry 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         5

scores  to  their graves daily  during this  month.
Those  who wish to  avoid  prolonged and  painful
illness, will do well to observe careful rules of diet
for a few  weeks,  at any rate.  Avoid fats of all
sorts, fried food, rich sauces, pastry, preserves and
condiments.  Eat only simple food, and be careful
not to overeat.
  There is an intimate relation of cleanliness and
clothes to the essential elements and graces of our
moral  condition and spiritual life.   The man who
wears his  old clothes year  after year, is really car-
rying  about with him more or less effete matter,
that has escaped in insensible emanations from his
body ever since those old clothes were new.  It is
wise to crawl out of the garments, already satur-
ated  with decomposed organic substances,  if one
has any proper regard for either health or holiness.
There are some people who really appear to have
a preference for whatever is filthy and unbecoming
in dress.
       DANGERS  OF MEAT-EATING.

  The dangers of contamination with disease from
the use of  animal food are not  few.   Trichinae,
tapeworms, and other entozoic  parasites enter the
system in animal food.   In addition to this source
of danger, animals are well-known to be subject to 
(5         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
 numerous diseases which may be undiscovered be-
 fore  the  animal's death, or, if discovered,  may
 be secreted for the  purpose of  gain by  unscrupu-
 lous  butchers.  Another great danger,  and one
 which is  commonly  overlooked,  is  the effect  of
 fatigue or suffering  upon the blood and flesh  of
 animals.  There is ample evidence that  the blood
 and flesh  of an  animal killed in a state  of fatigue
 or excitement  may  be violently  poisonous, as is
 well shown by  the following cases, which we quote
 from " Kirby's Wonderful Museum," published  in
 1820:
   "It appears,  from incontestible evidence,  that
 from killing cattle that have been much fatigued
 or harassed  in driving, while  yet warm, conse-
 quences  highly dangerous, and even fatal, may
 result to those engaged in the operation.  Whether
 any noxious vapor exhales at such a time from the
 carcass, has not  been accurately ascertained ; but
 so much   is  certain, that  contact  Avith the blood
 is productive of the  most alarming effects.  The
 following  fact was communicated  by M.  Morand.
 physician  to the Hotel des Invalides, at Paris,  to
 the French Academy:
   "On the  7th of October, 1765, two  butchers.
 belonging to the Hotel des  Invalides, each killed
 an ox for the use of the house.      *      *     *
  "The following day, however,  one of the but-
chers complained that  his eyelids were swelled,
and of headache.  The  swelling extended to his 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.
*
cheeks; fever succeeded, and  he Avas carried to- tJk-
infirmary.    *****     *     e
  " On his eyelids and  different parts of his faec
rose tumors which  threatened mortification ; bxi*
at length an  eschar was formed, which, with diffi-
culty, Avas brought to suppurate.     *    *   On.'
the 20th the left thigh Avas attacked Avith a violent
pain,  as was the  right  leg on the following day..
*     *      The pain and swelling increased, snrp-
puration  ensued, and he was confined to the in-
firmary for upwards of three  months.
  " The  other butcher  Avas attacked  by the  same
disorder tAvo days after killing the animal.. He suf-
fered more than his colleague.
  " These two oxen had been examined, according.
to the constant custom of the house, and were nofr
observed  to have any malady or distemper.  They
only appeared to be rather fatigued.   Their blood
seemed in no respect  different from that of other?.
  " A butcher who had been in the  army stated
similar facts, and that some of the  men affected!
had died."
  Another  communication was  made to  the Aca-
demy, in substance, as follows: " A drove of cattle-
proceeding from Limosin to  Paris, one of the finest
Avas unable to  keep up Avith  the rest, and he was-
sold to a butcher at Pithivier. The man, on killing;
the beast, put the knife into his mouth,  and va?
some hours afterward attacked with a SAvelling of
the  tongue,  an oppression of the breast,  and  a 
>r          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

«U*Mculty  of respiration.   Blackish  pustules  ap-
|>.*stred all over his body, and he died on the fourth
duE®!  «>f a general mortification.   The  innkeeper
TEWfiaLg scratched the palm of his hand Avith a bone
•flrF tike  same animal, a livid  tumor arose  in  the
jvlbLfte, the arm mortified, and he died in the course
*\£sa. week.  A maid-servant  received  some of the
lil®«3«l on her cheek ;  violent inflammation followed
will black tumors, which, though cured, greatly
■disfigured her.   The surgeon Avho opened  one of
tjix.se tumors put his lance between his  wig and
His*, forehead ;  his head swelled, an erysipelas  or
Sti. A.Rthony's  fire succeeded, and it was a consid-
erable time before he recovered."
               A GOOD RESULT.

  VI*ae of the most useful  lessons  Avhich the cora-
wblwc. people can learn is that they can themselves
<\a-«©mething not only to prevent sickness, but  to
asaSt In recovery when they  have once  lost their
liraLitb.   People who have  never had any experi-
easte ia this  direction are  astonished at  the effect
ftT-.-simple remedies.   The following case, reported
bursts "&y Mrs. M. E. McKee, is a good illustration 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         9

of what such simple  applications, as are dictated
by common sense, will do :
   u I send the following for the benefit of those
similarly troubled with that distressing  complaint
known as summer catarrh.  The case Avas a chronic
one  of  long  standing.  At tAvo  different  seasons
the brain became so congested that  a settled fever
Avas the result, and it was  feared  that the mind
would not be restored.   As the patient Avas averse
to taking drugs, water treatment had been given,
and  the health  reform diet  partially  carried out.
U"pon the third attack,  the  following course Avas
,pursued, Avhich differed from all former treatment:
   " Salt and butter were  entirely excluded from
the diet, and plainly-cooked food partaken  of very
sparingly, Avith no liquid food and but little drink,
as the  water was  hard.   The  symptoms were,
pain in  the head from a spot on  top down to the
ear,  with a  pain  in  the forehead,  nose and face.
When it Avas most severe,  the feet were  put in hot
water and the heat increased by dipping  out and
adding  more.   When they  had been  in about
twenty minutes, heat and cold were alternately
applied to the forehead  and over the nose.  The
hot  woolen cloths were so hot as  nearly to blister.
Changes  were made  every three  minutes  for half
an hour, the foot  bath being  continued.   This
.treatment was  given on  three successive  days, 
10        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
when the pain and  catarrh  entirely disappeared,.
and have not since returned."
              BREAD vs. BEEF.

  Ever since vegetarians  proved to the wcidd,  by
their  teachings  as well as by their  practice, that
human life can be Avell supported by a diet'from
which  the flesh  of animals is Avholly excluded,,
most Avriters  upon dietetics  have considered it a
special part of their duty  to  present  an  array of
arguments in support of the popular  practice-, of
meat-eating.  The most of these arguments consist
of dogmatic and  empirical statements,  in support
of which no proof is offered, but the Avriter's asser-
tion.   Xoav and then Ave  see  a better attempt at
a logical treatment of the subject.   Nevertheless;,
a careful analysis of these more rational arguments
does not fail to expose the fallacy in the premises.
We haA'e a good illustration of this class  of argu-
ments in a recent Avork on diet by Dr. Chambers.
of London.   The doctor argues thus :
  "Suppose, for instance,  a  gang of a hundred'
average  prisoners  to  excrete in the shape  of
breathed air, urine, and  faeces, daily  71^ pounds
of carbon  and 4} pounds of  nitrogen, Avhic-br  is
pretty nearly the actual amount of those elements 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        II
contained in the dried solids of the secretions, as-
estimated in current physiological works.   Nitro-
gen  and carbon, to that extent at least,  mus$ "fee-
supplied.    Noav, if you fed them on  bread ancf
water alone, it Avould require at least 380 pounds
of bread daily to keep them alive for long; for it
takes that weight to  yield the 4^ pounds of nitro-
gen daily excreted.  But in 380^ pounds of bread
there are  128-j   pounds  of carbon, which is 57
pounds above the needful  quantity  of that  sub-
stance."
   Allowing that the preceding paragraph  contains
no error, it  must be admitted that Dr. Chambers-
has  made  a strong argument  in favor of animal
food;  but  upon  examination,  Ave find that  the-
doctor proposes to feed his prisoners upon super-
fine Avhite-flour bread. It is a well-established fact
that fine-flour bread contains little nitrogen, Avhile-
grahain  bread  contains  it  in a  large proportion.
If graham  bread were supplied to the prisoners in
the case supposed, they Avould obtain the  full sup-
ply of nitrogen demanded by Nature by the use oi
175  pounds instead of 380 pounds, as stated by
Dr. Chambers  What the doctor's argument proves.,
then, is  not that animal food  is required to com-
plete a Avholesome dietary, but that graham bread
is decidedly preferable to that made from superfine
flour.
   If a man Avas  compelled  to eat fine-flour bread.
and  was unable  to secure other nitrogenized food. 
 12        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

it Avould be better to use a  moderate quantity of
meat than to attempt to sustain life by  so inferior
an article of diet; but if graham flour, or unbolted
Avheat meal, or oatmeal could be obtained, it would
entirely obviate any necessity for the use of meat.
We make, Avithout fear of contradiction, the state-
ment that  the various  kinds  of  vegetable  food
contain  in  ample proportion all the elements re-
quired for the proper sustenance of the body.
                   CATARRH.

   R. M. T.,  Cal., asks for the proper treatment of
 chronic catarrh.
   Answer. In  the treatment of chronic catarrh,  a
 thoroughly hygienic diet is of the greatest import-
ance.  You should avoid condiments, and all kinds
 of greasy food, fat meat, etc.   The diet should be
 mostly composed of fruits and grains.   Two meals
.& day are  preferable to more.  The greatest regu-
 larity should be observed in the time of the meals.
 You should  take abundance of out-door  exercise.
   Take a pac  once a week, also take fomentations
 over the liver and bowels, followed by the rubbino-
 wet sheet, twice a week.   Take a pac  on  Wednes-
 day and a  fomentation Avith rubbing wet  sheet on
 Monday and Friday.    The water employed in
.treatment should be of about 95 ° in temperature 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         13

except for the fomentation, Avhich should be as hot
as it can be borne.
  In addition, take nasal douche daily, adding salt
to the water employed in the douche in proportion
of half tea-spoonful of salt to a quart  of Avater.
The  Avater for the douche should be about 95 c ..
Great care should be taken to keep the circulation-
well balanced by proper clothing.
                 DEAFNESS.

  J. M. R.,  D. T., has had  partial deafness  A\ith>
noises in his ears  since infancy.   He wishes direc-
tions for treatment.
  Answer.   The prospect for benefiting  you  by
treatment is not very good.   We could not adven-
ture to  give  a prescription  Avithout making  a
thorough personal examination.
           DIET  FOR  CHILDREN.

  M. H. C, la,, asks : Is it well to  give a delicate
child, two years old, but two meals a day ?  He
has ahvays lived hygienically,  but has had a vari- 
14        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
-ible appetite  for several months, and at times has
heen very unwell.  Has his stomach been injured
'>y too coarse food ?
   Answer. It is not impossible  for a child  of two
years of age to  enjoy good health on tAvo meals a
-day; but most children at that age will do better
tap on three meals a day.  The meals should be taken
sit te&st five hours apart;  and the last meal of the
day should be very light, consisting simply of fruits,
if possible, or of fruits  with simple  proportions of
«as,traieal or graham flour.   Cases  are  very feAV in-
deed, in Avhich graham flour cannot be used bene-
ficially, but occasionally cases occur in which it is
•better to remove the coarser  portions  of  the
bran of the  flour by means of a coarse oatmeal
sieve before using. This Ayill entirely obviate any
irritating  effect which  might  otherwise be  pro-
duced.
       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

                  (Continued.)

  As my readers have doubtless observed, all  dis-
eases originate from eating and drinking unwhole-
■some food, particularly in the Southern States,
where all  food  spoils so readily  during  the  hot 
           ORKON OF YELLOW FEVER.        15

:5e'Ason.   Beef is worse than  any  other kind  of
food, and should not be  eaten  on any account.
Then, again, there are so many mud-holes, as well
as decaying bodies and filth constantly exposed to
the rays of a scorching summer's sun, that the at-
mosphere  becomes  impregnated  Avith offensive
odors, making it  poisonous in those localities, and
those  residents who are forced to inhale them ;  of
course they very naturally begin to feel sick and
oomplain of being diseased.             ,
  There is no remedy  that can  equal prevention.
S>end agents  throughout the  towns and country,
whose duty  it shall be to see that all decaying
putrid substances are  removed  at once.  People
should also keep  their residences  free from sweaty
clothes.   This is an important point that should
not be neglected  by any means.
  All eatables in the South are in a bad condition
•daring the summer months, and people should eat
sparingly  of such  unwholesome food, because,
when eaten, the  poison contained therein is neces-
sarily forced into the system, and there it remains
until driven out by perspiration.   Noav,  you never
should neglect, after getting cool, to wash the body
well with pure rain water, palm-oil soap  and a soft
brush.
  This process opens all of the sweat pores of the
system, and gives perfect relief from accumulated
poison.  If this is  not done, the poison that ob-
structs the SAveat pores of the skin accumulates to 
16        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
such an extent,  that  it Avholly prevents perspira-
tion, and the poison contained in  the  system has
no means of escaping—there is no other means by
Avliich it can pass off.   If you persist in eating and
drinking unwholesome food, and  inhaling an im-
pure atmosphere, the whole  system will soon  be-
come filled Avith a poison  that cannot  be digested
and passed off in a similar manner Avith our  food.
If such were the case, there  would be no danger
of getting .sick—none whatever.  The  sweat  pores-
have to  be kept open, as avcII as the  bowels  or
urine passages.
  Now let  me inform you that the stomach Avorks
against  all poisons;  it alloAvs no poisons  to pass
through a person who has good health. The SAveat
pores are for the reception  of poisons ;  the  urine
passages are for  the reception of the water that  a
person drinks, and the solid food has its own  pecu-
liar  passage also.    Consequently, when poison
enters into the  system, and  the sweat  pores are
discovered  to be all stopped up, it is compelled  to
remain in  the system, and  there  it  accumulates
until the system is  completely filled, and  when
this  is the  case,  the food, being obstructed, is pre-
vented from being  properly digested,  and com-
mences to decay, leaving the patient in  a  terrible
condition—yellow fever is ripe.
  If people were only aware of these facts, they
would  hasten to remove all obstructions of the
skin that  serve to clog  all  the  SAveat pores,  in, 
           ORIGIN* OF YELLOW FLYER         17

order to give an egress to all impurities in the sys-
tem ; they  Avould also remove all decayed filth and
vegetable  substances by burying them deep in the
earth,  and so  prevent  impurities of the atmos-
phere.
   I>ut, unfortunately, up to this very date, people
will live in a state  of filth, and are very  irregular
besides.  They  do not seem to know Iioav to eat,
drink, Avork, rest  or  sleep.   Nor do  they seem fc<?
understand how and Avhen  to wash their bodies.
It is therefore certain that they render  themselves
liable  to such  diseases as  yeiloAV   fever in this
Southern  climate,  because their physical systems
are obstructed  inside as Avell  as outside—poisoned
throughout, in fact;  and if they die  in  this condi-
tion, it is nearly  as bad as though they .had  com-
mitted deliberate suicide.
   The reason  why people do not get yellow'fever
during the winter may be found in  the  fact that
the food Ave eat is more fresh and Avholesome tltTi'n
it is during the summer months.   It  is  not so sus-
ceptible of decay.   Most of those people who are
in the habit of  indulging their appetites too,much,
freely partaking of unwholesome drink and  food,
as well as  inhaling impure air, are taken sick dur-
ing the months of August  and September.   They
are then well prepared  to receive  yellow fever,
more  particularly if they are surrounded by an
impure   atmosphere;   and  if  this  is   habitu-
    o 
18        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
ally  inhaled  by them, it  places their whole  sys-
tem  in  a fermenting  condition, similar  to that
shown by brewer's yeast  when introduced into
neAvly-made beer.  What this yeast  is  to  the
new, filthy beer, this impure atmosphere is to the
system,  when that system is  surrounded by filth.
The beer  begins  fermenting,  and vomits  up filth,
thus purifying the beer.  The yellow fever patient
vomits in a  similar  manner, and thus  expels the
impurities  of the system.  Whenever you notice
this, be well assured yellow fever is born ripe.
  Yellow fever is simply  a  purification  process,
that expels all  filth  and impurities from  the sys-
tem  most thoroughly,  and all who  may desire to
escape this purification process, will be  compelled
to keep both  soul and body clear of all  impurities
and  their attendant  evils.   Neglect  this,  and
you  may rest  assured   that  Nature  will  not
neglect  her duty.  She advocates cleanliness and
purity in the body as well as  in the soul.   This
is a law  of Nature  that has  been  proved un-
changeable.    Keep   your  bowels  and  sweat-
pores open all the time.
  And here  I  would  state that yellow fever does
not exist so much in the atmosphere as it  does  in
the  human  system.    If the  system is  obstructed
with impurities, you  possess  that Avliich  creates
fever.  If the  system is  free from impurities and
the air is impure, you will  not  be taken sick all  at
once.  If you  are you will choke  or  suffocate  to 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        19
death, for under  such circumstances  no one gets
better, they all die.   But as long as  some die of
yellow  fever and some recover, I  take  it for
granted that the disease may be found within the
system, and not in the atmosphere.
THE PASSAGE OF  FOOD AND  POISONS.

  You ought  not to  believe  that  you can  keep
your system pure by means of drugs.   By  no
means;  drugs  are  impurities.   If  food  is mixed
with poison and eaten, you must not imagine that
the poison  passes off and digests with the  food,
for  this is by no means the case.  Ah,  no ;  all the
food in the stomach is assorted,  and each portion
has  a passage of its  own.   The  watery portions
pass off separately by themselves, while  the  solid
food goes in another direction, each having a sep-
arate passage of its OAvn.
  The reader already knoAvs hoAV his  system ex-
pels the urine, and he also knoAvs how  the system
expels solid food; but he does not  know how his
system expels poison.  Let  me  inform  you that
poison is invariably  expelled through the  SAveat
pores of the system.  In proof of this statement,
take a dose of poison, and notice AA'hether it passes
off  like food, or makes its Avay through the pores 
20        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

of  the system.  We have  every proof  of this
Avithout searching for any additional tests.   I have
more than  once seen  persons avIio have died from
the effects of poison, and after death  it was found
in the flesh of the arms, legs, etc.  If this was not
the case, poison could  never destroy life, it would
simply pass away from the  system like solid food
or urine, and  would  be perfectly harmless  in its
effects.  But as it goes  into the system it becomes
dangerous, and destroys  health, if not life.  For
this reason, therefore, be particular as to what you
eat and drink, as Avell as the atmosphere which
you inhale.  It  should no longer be a wonder why
many are suffering from sickness in our midst.
  I have alluded, I think, in very plain  terms to
the cause of disease.   It  is  necessary, in  order to
escape diseases or fevers, to keep  perfectly clean,
to eat and drink nothing but wholesome food, and
not to eat too much. It is also essential to breathe a
pure  atmosphere.  Let your doors and windows
remain open for the air to come in.  Wash you per-
son daily from head to foot, and Avear cleanly-washed
clothing, changing  it every day  during the sum-
mer.  Sleep your regular hours,  at least eight or
ten hours out of the twenty-four.   Take plenty of
out-door exercise, choose work rather than lead a
lazy life. Sweating is  also required, as it promotes
health and longevity.
  Nature Avorks hard, day after day, and I cannot
see why a man or woman  should not work the 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        21

same.  Every man and  woman should try to do
their  own Avork,  and do it well.   If you can pos-
sibly  do without eating meats, drinking Avine or
spirituous liquors or using tobacco, you should by
all  means do  so  during the  summer months.  Salt
is a deadly poison ;  it destroys  the proper taste
of our daily food.  It  is very destructive to foAvls^
as it  is to  the health of mankind, only in the  lat-
ter  cases it is  slower in its  operation.   I shall en-
large upon this  subject in  another part of this
work, and also have more to say about the use of
meats.
  If a person is careful in eating and drinking and
keeps free from all impurities, yelloAV fever is power-
less—it has nothing to feed on.  Only  those whose
systems are filled  with impurities  during the sum-
mer season, may expect to  be purified by an at-
tack  of yelloAV fever.    Those who keep and re-
main  pure, escape this disease, because they retain
nothing in  their systems that the yellow fever  can
possibly feed upon.  Yellow fever invariably origi-
nates  in impurities and the heat of the  system.
         APPROPRIATE  REMEDIES.

  All diseases,  without exception, have  a  be-
ginning and an end.   First, ascertain the cause of 
22         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

disease, and then  seek  to remove  that  cause  as
early as practicable.  That is the easiest  and best
way to rid ourselves of this  dreaded pestilence.
Cleanliness; to be regular in our daily lives, Avhether
we work,  sleep, eat or drink; the use of  pure and
healthy food; to  be both moderate and temperate;
to learn what to eat, hoAV to eat, and  when  to eat ;
how to wash, what to wash, and when to wash ; how
to work, when to work and where to work; how  to
sleep, when to sleep and  where to sleep; how to
drink, what to drink and where to drink,  are all of
the greatest possible importance.
  When I speak of cleanliness, I mean that we
should be clean  and pure in all respects, clear of
all  filthy  obstructions, inside  and  out of  the
body, house and beds—our clothing, our gardens,
our yards and privies, should all be kept  clean and
absolutely  free  from filth.  Bathe freely—at least
once a day. Plant around your residence roses, SAveet
mignonettes, violets, tulips, and other flowers and
pretty shrubbery.   Have your house  open and
airy; let the sweet, perfumed air enter your dwelling
freely.  Have no soiled  clothing about your prem-
ises ; but  see that they  are cleansed  and purified
the moment you exchange them for others.  Keep
the flower-beds around your house perfectly clear of
weeds, and water your  flowers every  night.  This
the ladies of the house should do. 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        23
               PREVENTION.

  All privies should be built  upon level ground,
at least fifteen yards from the dwelling-house, and
they should be built so that all excrements can  be
readily taken away with a shovel, and this  should
be done  every day, just  before  retiring for the
night.  Cleaning  should  be done in the following
manner:  Dig a hole  two or  three feet deep  at
least, then take a long-handled shovel and remove
all the filth which may have accumulated  during
the day; throAV it into the hole you have dug, and
see that  it is thoroughly  covered up with  earth.
Upon a shelf inside your privy keep a small vial of
spirits of  ammonia, which will  prevent  yellow
fever from  having its origin  at that place. Let
your privy be covered with evergreens, and plant
SAveet flowers all  around it.   Rake together every
atom of  filth in your  yard, and either burn it at
once, or bury it deep in the ground.
  The only  remedy for any disease is prevention.
I have  no more  business to get sick than  I have 
24        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

to steal.    Is the penitentiary  a remedy for the
criminal,.or is it a punishment for him?  Is disease
a remedy,,ow is  it a punishment for neglect ?   Must
I perpetrate anything bad  against the laws of my
country in order to  escape punishment  in  the
penitentiary ?  Must I perpetrate anything against
the laws of health or the laws of Nature in  order
to preserve health V  In order  to escape  sickness
and disease ?   Why am  I confined in prison ?  Is
it because I have stolen  or  murdered ?  Why am
I sick?  Is it not because I have done something
contrary  to the laws of health  and to the laws of
Nature ?   Should a man steal in  order to gain a
reputation  for  honesty ?   Shall  a man drink  in-
toxicating  beverages  in order  to become sober ?
Should a man  waste  his money  in dissipation in
order to become rich ?  Should  a man smear him-
self all over Avith grease or other filthy substances
m order to keep clean ?   Should a man take poi-
son in order to keep healthy ? Must a man sow evil-
weed seeds into the soil in  order  to keep  that soil
free of evil weeds ? Is a man able to breathe a pure
atmosphere by  exposing himself to the inhalations
®f stinks and poisons ?  Would it not be better to
bury  all the  stinks and poisons,  in order to pro-
duce a pure atmosphere  ?   Is it  reasonable  to ex-
pect that a man can cleanse and purify his bouse
]by throwing  lime or other filthy substances over
the floor?   Would it  not be  better to take a
kroom and sweep it  all out ?   and then take  a 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         2f)

scrubbing brush,  pure  water,  soap and potash,
and wash it perfectly clean,  in order to purify it
of all its impurities ? Should it be that a man must
take poison in order to  get restored to his natural
health ?  Should  it be  necessary for a man to eat
and drink poisonous food  in order to preserve  his
health ?  Would it not  be better, in order to pre-
serve  his health   to endeavor to  eat  and  drink
only wholesome food upon all  occasions  ?
PREVENTION  IS  THE  ONLY  REMEDY-
      NOTHING ELSE WILL ANSWER.

  Now, in order to keep a market-house pure, take
a barrel of pure Avater, in which has been dissolved
one  pound  of potash, and after  scrubbing the
floors thoroughly with it until  it is  clean,  take a
wagon-load of clean white sand and throw it liber-
ally over the floor.  This will prevent  all unpleas-
ant and disagreeable  stenches.  Never use tar or
any  similar material  in order to produce a pure
air.  If vou  smell  tar, do  not imagine  that you
are inhaling a pure atmosphere, for such will not
be the case by any means.   Lime, also, is poison ; 
26        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
it destroys a pure atmosphere as quick as anything
else can do.  Instead of lime use  white or yellow
sand for purposes of purification, and reject any-
thing else which may be suggested instead.   Cov-
ering all stinks or decaying substances with  earth
is the only purification granted us by Nature, and
any  assertions to the contrary  are false.  If there
are any mud-holes in any  of our  Southern  cities,
fill them up with clean sand, even  a single inch  of
covering will  prevent the  escape  of  poisonous ef-
fluvia that would otherwise destroy the purity  of
the atmosphere.   Everything  suggested by the
doctors as proper to  be used for the purification
of the atmosphere, appears  to me precisely like
using the  whip in order to  be kind.
  Take your bed, and expose it  every  day to the
rays of the sun.  Take plenty of exercise.   Drink
no coffee,  tea or intoxicating drinks.   Drink  noth-
ing but water, and use as little of that for drinking
purposes as you can get along with.   By :dl  means
aAroid the use  of tobacco  in any form.  Eat no
beef,  or  at least but sparingly, but instead use
vegetables  and  fruits.    Graham-flour   bread,
two  meals  a  day,   is  a  plenty,  breakfast and
dinner.   Let your breakfast  consist  of oatmeal
gruel  and  graham-flour   bread,  good   butter
and one boiled egg.   For dinner have either sweet
or Irish potatoes,  any  kind of fruit, vegetables,
nuts, well-boiled rice, and avoid salt, grease,  beef
or other meats. 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        2T

  By adopting and following  such  a course, sick-
ness will be completely unknown. AVe have really
no  use  for  doctors ; we can  live   cheaply, hap-
pily and at peace.  This is the only  remedy for
yelloAV fever.  If any family will lead this kind of
life, they may be surrounded  with yelloAV fever,,
but it will not enter their house nor  their bodies.
   WHAT IS  THE  CAUSE  OF YELLOAV

                   FEARER?

  The people say that the man who commits a
crime against the  laAvs of  the land deserves pun-
ishment, and I say that, Avhen a man does any thing
to injure his health, and violates the laws  of Na-
ture, he deserves punishment also.   Why is a man
taken with sickness ?  Is it  not because he has com-
mitted some violation of the laws of health ? AVhy is
a man placed in the penitentiary ? Is it not because
he has violated the laws of the land?  Why is it
that some men are always  poor ?  Because their
laziness will not permit them to labor faithfully or
be taught those natural laws that call everything,. 
 28        ORIGIN' OF YELLOW  FEVER.

 by the help of man, into existence ? Why are some
 people dirty  and filthy ?  Is it not because their
 laziness will not permit them  to go  after water to
 wash  themselves? Why  should  such  people  be
 pitied?  Because they have  stolen; because they
 have themselves destroyed their health ; because
 they are  lazy, ignorant and  refuse to  learn.   Is
 that  a good  and valid  reason Avhy Ave  should  be
 the  slaves of those who neglect to Avork and re-
 fuse to receive instruction?   Can  it  be called a
 good excuse  that a man is poor because he is  too
 lazy  to labor for  his living,  like  other people ?
 Why  should  we  be  compelled  not only to labor
 hard for ourselves, but for this class of people be-
 sides; is this any reason  why I should feed the
 hungry, clothe the naked,  or nurse the sick, when
 all these evils have been  brought upon them by
 their own misconduct or negligence?
   I ask, again, Why  are they sick, hungry, naked,
 filthy and ignorant?   Why is such a  man  the in-
 mate  of the penitentiary ? My friends, it is be-
 cause they have done  something wrong ;  they have
 either violated the laws  of the land, or  they have
 bid defiance  to the laws of Nature and  of health.
 This  is why they are obliged to suffer the penalty.
 AVe have to  trace and  find  out  the  wrong, and
 discover in what their  Avrong consists.  If it is
 proved that  a man is in the  penitentiary because
 he has stolen, we can readily perceive that the way
✓to escape confinement  in such a place would be to 
           ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.         29

avoid the crimes that  have placed  him there.  If
the perpetration of  Avrong  is  proven  to  be the
cause of all  the misery Ave  suffer./all Ave have to
do is to avoid such offences in the future, and this
is the lesson I would teach my readers.
  Now,  if certain  causes  produce sickness, let us
try and ascertain  what those causes are, in order
that they uiay be avoided  in future,  thereby per-
mitting us  to  escape the evils  that  follow  as  a
natural consequence.   If these subjects Ave re care-
fully  investigated,  instead  of our  endeavoring to
learn Iioav to restore spoiled substances, we should
receive a far greater amount of benefit, but as socie-
ty is  now constituted  and organized, it seems as
though everything  Avas incorrectly taught.   The
priest  says he can cure sins; the doctor says he
can cure  diseases;  I say it-is not  so.   I say they
cannot  do any such thing.  The only Avay to be
free from sin is not  to commit sin, and the only Avay
to avoid  sickness  is  to keep clear of  the causes
that produce sickness by living in strict accordance
with the laAvs of health and Nature.   I say you can-
not prove a murder to be no murder.  You  cannot
do it.   The only Avay to avoid being a murderer is
not to kill, and the  only Avay to prevent being sick
is to avoid that Avhich will make us  sick.
  How  are you able to make good the character
you have ruined and lost ? How would you do it ?
You have  committed murder,  and is there any-
thing  in the universe to prove  that you  are no- 
30         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
murderer?  If you have ruined  your health, is
there anything on earth that can restore it ?  If
there is anything in the world that can  serve to
restore spoiled character and reputation, I would
really like to know Avhat it is.  The  only way  I
can discover to escape penitentiary punishment is
not to break the  laAvs of the land.   And certain it
is that if you expect or desire to escape sickness,
you must not violate the unalterable  laws of health.
If you expect to discover anything to the contrary,
you exhibit a plain proof that you are, indeed, de-
prived of common sense.
   If you possess  a beautiful new coat, what would
you  do in order to keep  it  free from  filthy and
dirty spots ?   Would you put in plenty of soap in
order to  keep it  clean, neAV and beautiful ?  No!
AVell, what in the Avortd will you put in, then, to
keep it in that condition ? I would put in nothing ;
4ind, if I do this,  I feel certain I can keep my coat
free from filthy and dirty spots.  You must pursue a
similar course in  order to keep your body in health
and good order all the time.
   Is  it necessary to have  children  vaccinated in
order to keep their little bodies clean and healthy?
Does not this  look exactly like keeping a new coat
clean and free from spots by putting soap upon it  ?
The only Avay to  keep the body free from sickness
is to keep it free  from filthy substances outside as
well as inside.  If this is done, the little, beautiful,
neAV and clean body is kept in health.  Never have 
ORIOIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.        31
your children vaccinated ;  if you do, you plant
diseases  in  their little systems, the same as you
ruin your coat in endeavoring to keep it clean bv
rubbing soap into it.   A beautiful idea of the doc-
tor's, is it not ?
  The healing art  ought not to ask the question,
•' AVhat cures  disease, but what will  prevent dis-
ease ?"  The  acts  of  a  legislature  ought  not  to
seek to punish crimes, but should endeavor to pre-
vent the crimes  from  being  committed.   The
human teacher ought not to teach the  causes of
sin,  but  how to prevent  sin.   The question ought
not  to be asked,  " AVho dies right," but, " Avho
lives right."   Col. Ingersoll says :
  " I look upon death as the  most  unimportant
moment  of  life, and believe that not  half the re-
sponsibility is attached to- dying that there is to
living  properly."
  This is Avhat I believe—man must live properly
in order to keep his health;  then he has no risk to
run of getting sick.  Ought there to be anything
too  good to escape investigation ?  I say that a
man has the will to do right, and he  has the will to
do wrong, but it should be preferred for the wrong
to do right; and the true right way and practice
we  must learn.  In my  opinion the  solution of
these questions are easy and comprehensible.  It
only remains for men  to be without  prejudice and
pre-judgments.  He should enter into an investiga-
tion  of these cases precisely as he Avould any other 
32         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER,

subject.    Every  portion  of  responsibility  is
thrown upon the perpetrator. All evils Avhich exist
here in this world should be traced to their origin.
This done, all  evils will  cease.  It  is just as easy
to discover from Avhence yellow fever originates as
it is to discover pain in  your hand by putting  that
hand into fire, or getting drunk upon intoxicating
liquors.  Well, if you  know  that  fire will  give
you pain, then do not put your hand into the  fire.
If liquor makes you drunk, then avoid drinking it
If filthy atmospheres and unwholesome food  are
the  causes of vcIIoav fever, then  avoid breathing
the  one and eating and  drinking trie other.  Bury
all  decaying bodies that poison  the atmosphere,
and see whether you are not  able to escape con-
tagion.   It is sure  that .when you say you have
seen a  man drunk,  it is because he has partaken of
intoxicating liquors, and if I hear of the existence
of yellow fever, I  say it  has been  produced be
filth and uncleanliness  of food and wearing ap-
parel.  There is a  cause for everything,  and thy
cause Ave -wish to know.
        THE  CONCUSSION THEORY.

  This  theory does not  remove  the cause, and
therefore I have no faith in it. 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        33

  It seems to me something like allowing a man
to get dead drunk, and then aftenvards beo-innino-
to look for a remedy to  make him sober again.
This kind of  teaching I do not like, because  there
is no cure but obedience.
  A man has no more business  to get drunk  than
he  has  to get the vcIIoav  fever.   YcIIoav  fever
might be prevented as well as drunkenness.
  RemoAre the cause,  and  you have the remedy—
and the only  one after all.   Nevertheless, the con-.
cussion  theory contains  more good than harm;
but, as I have said before, it does  not remove the.
cause, and that is the  only ob • ion I have against -
it.
  Since waiting the above  I have seen the  concus-
sion theory  thoroughly tried, and  truth  compels
me to say that it is good for nothing.  It is net
an agency that discovers the origin  of disease, nor
does it, in  any manner—directly or indirectly__
diminish or  prevent disease of any  kind from en-
tering  the  human  system.   It  certainly  cannot
    3 
 «'J4         ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.

 jfjn.'iiy .the atmosphere Ave inhale, nor can  it pro-
 «>5nv..£. .any -effect upon man's physical system.
   W.her.vyou smell the  fumes of gunpowder, it  is
 tfXKiljces;-ible for you, to inhale a pure atmosphere, as
 2g>wa.must necessarily inhale  that which you  smell.
 "-This-is; tioOjplain, to be misunderstood by any one.
 .H::vsar aviso authorities, as they call themselves, in-
 stead of adopting  the-concussion theory, had en-
 tfIeaA7ored  to  ascertain the true  causes that made
-cox .citizens die  so very  fust, they might have ac-
 caEB^pilished some good for society  at large, and  it
 ax&yybbe,. have solved the  mystery.  But  instead of
 .rJfis, 'liiey vchese fto adopt the concussion theory,
 •.-nsb.what  is the result?   What great  discovery
 srrmld they have reason to look for or expect ? The
 Ftac,us Y)reposterous.   It is really a burning shame
 'in .see the  funds of any. city  so .neeellessly and fool-
 taibly e^poiided, and for. what, unless to gratify the
"^tsk&Uot.&eas of a set of  confirmed lunatics?  AVho
 s^cer heard that the discharge of a park of artillery
 'ttinuld  cleanse a  foul and disordered  stomach, or
 *X\i\\- it could,  in any  manner, prevent the  people
 ff"b®ai:in.'.tting. sick or dying.?  The bare suggestion
 ilk realty'. too absurel  for people living  in the  nine-
 ita5»?4ith  century.to entertain for a single instant.
 ~H*»w any  sane man can entertain  any  such false
 l&fiEef, is beyond my comprehension. Many people
 jrasM&end to believe that  disease and death might
 fat£-,';&.ept at a distance by the discharge of a few
 -ssSS Tasty  cannons.  They imagine, perhaps, that 
             ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         35

   the same cause which might endanger the lives of
   a Avhole community in the event of our city being
   bombarded by an enemy, would very readily ban-
   ish yellow fever  from our midst.
     Have not our authorities given ample proof that
   their method of  jumping at conclusions is a hum-
   bug, a delusion and a snare ?  Have they ever  be-
   gan to solve the  mysteries of the,cause  or preven-
   tion of disease, as I have done ?  I think not.  Does
   all, or indeed, any of their investigations prove a
   single fact, elicit a single truth, add anything to
   the cause  of  science,  or benefit  poor, suffering  hu-
   manity  in the slightest degree?  If so, I  must
   confess it is impossible for me to  discover it in  the
   fclighest degree.   They  can derive no credit from
   the  experiments that -have  recently  been  made,
*  but they certainly do deserve, and most assuredly
   Avill  receive  the  condemnation  of  all practical
   men for thus  trifling with the dearest interests of
   humanity at  a time Avhen a whole community is
   infected with a pestilential disease that  strikes ter-
   ror to the hearts of the bravest and best.
     In my seconel edition I intend to enlarge upon
   this topic, as it is  one that should not be lightly
   passed over or neglected.  Send for it in time. 
3(>         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
    EFFECT OF DIET ON THE L1VEH.

  AVe  quote the folloAving from  our Health An-
nual for 1878 :
  " Almost every other man Ave  meet is complain-
ing about  his liver.   One has  a  ' torpid '  liver ;
another has  ' congestion ' of the  liver ;  another
has a pain in his side, which he is confident  is due
to disturbance of his  liver.   Complaints are loud
and general against the liver, but no one thinks of
entering a complaint against the diet, which is the
real source  of  difficulty.  Careful  investigation
and examination of the liver, after  death, have
proven the deleterious effect which  certain articles
of food have upon the liver.
  " The  drunkard's  liver  becomes hardened by
the alcohol he imbibes.   The liquid poison has the
same damaging effect upon his brain.
  "The livers of people avIio use a great deal of
fat—fat meat, butter, lard,  rich cakes, pies,  etc.,
become infiltrated with fat.   They  undergo a pro-
cess called fatty degeneration, in Avhich there is an
actual  change of  the tissue to fat.   This change is 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        37
favored by sedentary habits.   The liver of  the
domestic cat is almost ahvays fatty.
  " The  natives  of the  East Indies, as  well as of
Central and Southern Africa, together  Avith Mexico
and other warm  climates, make  great use of pep-
per, mustard, turmeric, and other irritating spices.
The result of this practice is not only derano-ement
of the stomach,  but the production of induration
of the liver, a  disease  Avhich Avas formerly attri-
buted to the climate of those regions, on account
of its prevalence, but is now well known to be the
result of the use  of the deleterious articles named.
Lovers of pepper and mustard should look out for
their  livers.
  " It has been  observed that  cattle that have
been overfed, or  fed on warm  slops,  have badlv
diseased livers.  The organ is found enlarged, in
some  cases very greatly, and its surface is covered
Avith red spots  and  ragged, ulcerated patches, indi-
cating the  presence of disease of so extensive a
character as to  render the organ almost wholly
useless.
  " The same causes Avhich produce  these graA'e
effects in savage  and semi-civilized human beings,
and in lower aniinals Avill produce the  same result
in civilized beings.   Pepper and mustard are no
better for a Ncav York City gormand than for  a
Hottentot or a Mexican Indian. Slop food—highly
seasoned soups,  gravies, and ' rich' sauces—have
disabled thousands of human livers." 
38        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
                         October  12th,  1877.

   I noticed  in  the morning paper, the Sun and
 Press, my name advertised as a Brooklyn picket
 guard.   I Avould like to make everybody  under-
 stand that August Buesing refuses to stand picket
 and refuses to furnish means to uphold  it, for the
 following reasons :
   First.  I Avill  not deprive  myself of my health
 and night's rest, nor do  I desire to  see  others de-
 prived of their freedom, liberty and equal rights,
 that all people living in a free Republic, are justly
 entitled to.
   Second. Let no  picket guard  believe that he
 sacrifices  himself to do  good for me by standing
 picket.  No !  I do not desire him to deprive him-
 self of his health and night's rest.   If he stands
picket he  does it because he desires to do so.
   Third.  I have a  very  low opinion of any man
who supposes that  others ought to do as he does
and that his way is the only just, true, right  and
best way.   Men are liable  to think  they know
what they only believe.  The great error made by 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        ?£ )

a majority  of mankind  consists in  believiiiii- si
thing without any proof of it.  This habityl i^sV;,
may pass away.   They, with their ill-judged'tssf-*;
are the cause of much misery in this Avorldl  Spcci-
will not permit me to point out particulars .?.+; tliafes
time.   As  for myself,  I had rather save vcr ?<r."J
than  earthly  riches.   If  anyone  chooses  "DKfe-
way,  I  have no  objection ;  they might  as- ^ro«G
have their  own Avay, nobody gets hurt but; thfTXE-
sclves, but I desire to have my way also.
           Respectfully,
                           Arorst Bi esiv-; .
  1 had Avritten the above for the neAvspapen. Tfe^
reason I  did not send it doAvn Avas  becau.se- XctE
not believe that they Avould  print it.   M?.sy <wi"
my Avritings  had found  their way  into the wshV'-
basket before.
         \VIIArr IS YELLOW FEVER 'i

  Immediate efforts to remove  the  impurftf*>.: \Yi'
the human system. 
40
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
  Is this cleaning process dangerous ?
  Certainly it is.  In many instances it  cannot be
done without destruction.  Suppose, for a moment,
you  Avere the possessor of an iron hoop, full of
r.ust of long  standing—rusty  throughout—do you
suppose  you could remove the iron rust from that
hoop without destroying that hoop itself ?   Cer-
tainly  you could not,  nor  can you remove long-
standing impurities  from the  human  system with-
out destroying that  Avhole system.
  Therefore, I tell you  again that, as cleanliness is
necessary to keep iron  from rusting, it is equally
necessary to keep the human system free  from yel-
low fever.
HOAV  ARE  IMPURITIES  DETECTED  IN
               THE SYSTEM ?

  The only way  is to ascertain whether your sys-
tem  is pure and  free  from poison.  Should you
constantly  suffer  from thirst, sick headache, etc.,
you  may be sure  it  proves the existence  of im-
purities in your system, and  hence, extreme pre-
cautions are necessary.  You  should  drink noth-
ing but hot or cold water, and use plenty of exer- 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        41

cise so as to promote perspiration throughout your
system.   It is by means of perspiration that  all
Impurities are expelled  from the system.
                STEAM  BATH.

  If a person finds himself too weak for exercise,
then  let him go  to  bed and  take a  steam bath.
For this purpose take a No. 2 self-acting fountain
syringe, made by  Fairbanks and  sole! at the office
of the Health Reformer, Battle Creek, Michigan,
by  all hygienic  physicians,  and by August Bues-
ing, Post office box No. 9S9, Jacksonville, Florida.
Price, three dollars each.
  Fill it with one quart  of water,  about milk-
warm, for a grown person ;  a pint for a child,  and
inject it into the system   This cleans your entrails
or boAvels ; then take a Avet sheet and wrap your-
self up in it.  Have a hot brick ready, drop  it  into
Avater, wrap it up in a wet cloth, and lay one brick
on  your feet and one  under each  arm.   Noav Avrap
yourself up in woolen blankets,  and lay down in
bed.   Drink one quart of hot Avater, as hot  as you
are able to swallow it.  As you begin to perspire 
42         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

all your impurities begin to dissolve in the system,.
and  are  driven and  washed  out  by  the sweat.
After having sweat profusely, put on clean clothes,
and if you still feel the effects of  thirst,  keep up
Avith  the  same process as above  until the  thirst
ceases, and the bowels begin to run easily, that is--
to say,  once  or tAvice  a day.  If you  feel  very
hungry, eat oat-meal gruel, and drink nothing else ■
but water.  The juice of a fresh lemon, orange or ■
crape is a most excellent medicine, and  should be
taken freely.   After  health  is restored, be careful i
and do not admit any  impurities again  into* your ■
system.
    IS YELLOAV FEVER CONTAGIOUS ?

  AVho is it that says  the disease  is contagious ?
Some feAV physicians.  Does that produce sufficient
proof that their assertions are correct?   Must avc
believe these gentlemen, without demanding ample
proof of the reality of these statements ?   I think
not.   I have a doubt about it, and  I have  a right
to my own  opinion, and these doubts no one  is
able  to take  from me, as I shall  retain them until 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        43

these gentlemen Avill furnish proof that may en-
able me to perceive  for myself that my views are
incorrect.  If I  can see that the disease is really
contagious, then,  of course, my  doubts naturally
fall  to  the ground.  Under the present  circum-
stances I am compelled  to ask my  friends,  the
physicians, what proof they have that yelloAV fever
is really contagious ?  Have they  thoroughly in-
vestigated the disease in order to determine that it
is contagious, and that, too, without the least doubt
about it ?   What discoveries have  they made dur-
ing their investigations?   AVhat proofs have they
to show that yellow fever is, or is not, contagious?
We desire to arrive at facts.  Your bare  word for
it is by no means  proof that such  is the case.   If
these  proofs are not fairly made  to us,  Ave shall
have the right to believe that you are  incapable of
producing it.
  AVe demand, then, of our physicians proof as to
what place, Avhen and Avhere any  thorough, rigid
investigation  has  ever taken  place.   AVho were
present during  this investigation ; avIio  were the
parties that conducted all the  experiments ; what
are their  names, and where do they reside ; Avhat
subjects did they  investigate, and Avhere is  the
certified result  of  their investigation ;  Iioav, and
upon what principles Avas  this investigation  con-
ducted ;  what means or appliances  had they to en-
able them  to decide Avhat  was  really  contagious
and what Avas not; of Avhat material  was this con- 
44        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

tagion composed, and by Avhat process were these
facts arrived at to the  satisfaction of those scien-
tific gentlemen, who Avere  interested in this inves-
tigation.  These are  the facts Ave seek to discover
in the interests of truth and for the  benefit of hu-
manity ; and, gentlemen, if you  fail  to furnish us
with the information  we so urgently demand, Ave
-cannot but believe  that you knoAV very little that
is positive  about the  subject; and, Ave  have, there-
fore, justifiable grounds for believing and asserting
that yellow fever is not, never has been, and never
will be a contagious  disease that Ave need to fear.
  AVe  desire to  knoAV  of those avIio were present
at the time, the time and place of these alleged in-
vestigations, what Avas  done first, and hoAV it Avas
done;  Avdaether these  investigators  passed judg-
ment upon  the material they declared to be  con-
tagious  Avithout looking at it, and Avithout touching
it;  or AAdiether they really did examine it conscien-
tiously and  thoroughly.  If they did look at and
handle  this material, did  they take the disease of
yellow  fever, and  if so, AA^ere  the  effects  fatal ?
Hoav were  these  parties able to decide Avhether
they contracted  the disease from positive contact
Avith certain  material, or Avhether the  disease was
naturally produced by certain impurities lurkino-
in and through their  physical systems  previous to
the actual commencement of these investigations ?
If the  disease  is contagious, as these gentlemen
assert, hoAV is it that medical men have no person- 
ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER        45'
al fear of it ?   By  what  fortunate  circumstance ■
are they exempt  from  danger ?   If  they are not
exempt from yellow fever, why do they  go Avhere
the disease is  known to exist ?  Are  they so  very
reckless of their  own lives,  or do they really de-
sire to die; or, is the disease afraid of the eloctors,
as the devil is said to be of the good  acts of man-
kind ?
  AVe Avould ask  of  these investigators  whether it
Avas the results of this investigation alone that en-
abled them to declare  that yellow fever was,  be-
yond a single doubt, contagious.  If they declare
this to be a fact, Ave desire that their evidence be
taken in open court, and given under the sanctity
of a solemn  oath—why,  Iioav and Avherefore  yel-
low fever is really contagious.  AATill our physicians
do this?  AVill they go into a court of justice, and
there declare upon  their solemn oath the  causes
of yelloAV fever, why it is contagious, of what the
disease  consists,  and at the same  time give us its
origin and  history,  and prove how it may be  kept
away from us in future,  showing us also the bene-
fits, if there are  any, that may exist through the
enforcement of quarantine laws.
  I have nothing more to say upon the subject of
contagion until I can receive  a sensible  reply to
Avhat I have already  written  upon the subject;
Avhen this  reply  is  received, if the  medical  men
produce the evidence I  have courteously  demand-
ed, it will give me  great pleasure to explain my 
46        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

views more  extensively,  and prove to them how
oreatly they are mistaken in conclusions  that can-
not rest  upon a solid foundation, and arc,  there-
fore, unworthy  of being accepted and  valued by
the general community who feel  interested in this
subject.   And now, before closing on this point, I
again beg leave to ask, again  to  demand,  an  an-
swer to the  question,
    IS YELLOAV  FEVER CONTAGIOUS? ■

  No more than a rusty iron hoop is contagious—
whoever says the  contrary tells an  untruth.  No
man can harvest before he has planted.   You can-
not turn an egg into an  old  hen all at once,  nor
can you boil  water Avithout first making it warm.
Neither can you get the yellow  fever  by keeping
the system free from  all impurities.  If it were a
possible thing for  an egg to turn at once into  an
old hen, it Avould certainly be regarded as some-
thing very extraordinary.  If this is  admitted to
be impossible,  as it really is, then a person who is
perfectly free from all impurities can no more become
a yelloAV  fever patient than the egg can be instan-
taneously transformed into an old hen.
   The yellow fever must necessarily have its regular
 natural  growth, the same as the egg becomes a
 chicken,  and eventually an old hen.   AVhen you 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        47

see an old hen you know her origin,  do you not ?
AVell, then, the  yellow fever has its origin also ;
its growth  and  its  maturity ;  but  this does not
prove, by any means, that it is contagious, any more
than it proves an old hen must become such, mere-
ly because it has come in contact  with  an egg.  It
is really laughable to talk upon the subject of con-
tagion.  It is folly to believe such stuff when un-
supported by proof.  It is better to think of the
many Avho  have suffered hardships through  the
enforcement of a brutal and cruel
               QUARANTINE.

  Do the people really know wrong from right ?  A
stupid set, who pretend to try and do good, but only
look at  the consequences.   Shall  I allude to them
here ?   No ! I had rather not, because they would
seem really awful.   It  might deprive  others  of
property,  life  and liberty.    It might bring retri-
bution upon them, and this  ought to be the reAvard
of their misconduct.  Is there any humanity about
quarantine ?  Are people helped by it, or are  they
exposed to suffering in consequence  of it?  Are
the sick among  the poor  carefully  and tenderly
nursed,  or are they treated worse than criminals ? It 
48         ORIGIN OF YELLOAV FEVER.
 looks very like Christianity, indeed it does.  Are not
 people ashamed  to  call themselves Christians by
 elaborating a cruel creed in  tyrannical acts ?  Do
 they possess loving characters?   Have they any
 real love for freedom?  Have  they any desire  to
 visit the  sick and  diseased  in  their affliction, in
 order to nurse them and aid in  their  restoration
 to health ?  Do  they treat them at all like friends  ;
 or  do  they  treat them  as  criminals ?    AVere it
 not for  a  few really good people, the sick  wouhl
 perish Avithout mercy.  Darkness ! darkness seems
 to exist all around and about us,  and light is actu-
 ally our greatest need.
  Let  me ask  again, do you pretend to  kno w
 what is good and Avhat is kind, or have you that
 much yet  to learn.   What is goodness and kind-
 ness ? Shall I inform you ?  It is to do  that which
 is not injurious to others.
  But you are not  going to say  that  quarantine
 and picket'guards  are to the  injury of  mankind.
 Certainly  ! That is Avhat  I mean to say, because it
is my honest opinion based upon actual observa-
tion.  AVhen you establish  quarantine laws, you
only think to benefit yourselves at  the  expense of
others.  It  is positively  brutal,  and brutality  is^,
very far removed  from  goodness  and  kinelness.
This is a fact you should know and recognize.   It
makes  one believe  that  Christianity  consists  of
repeated acts of  cruelty by  depriving poor people
 Avho are supposed to bo living in a free  country of 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        49
 their liberty, goods and chattels.   Are you blind?
 Can  you not  discover the evils that  have arisen
 from the establishment of quarantine regulations?
 No !  Then permit me to show them to you at once.
 Look at  the men, A\omen,and sweet, innocent little
 children sick,  suffering,  and  in great  pain for the
 lack of food, water and assistance, hardly able to
 bury their dead—what a pitiable sight.  Look at
 the  great  distress of loving Avomen,  hear  their
 sorroAvful voices, listen to their lamentable cries—
 only just think of it !
   On the other side—glance at the pickets, armed
 to the teeth Avith  guns,  pistols and bowic-kr,.- s.
 their brows corrugated Avith  anger ; from thro   )s
 drop the wretched threats of what they intenel to
 do Avith  those d—d sons of b—s, when they come
 inside their reach.   A photograph of a scene like
 this would seem attractive.
  Just think of the detained decaying meats and
 vegetables at the  quarantine  station,  and of  the
 aromatic odors constantly arising therefrom. Then
 look at the people, who are the owners  of these
 goods thus held in quarantine, and  think how anx-
iously they are expecting their  arrival.   Listen to
what they  say ;  hear  their opinion  of quarantine
 laAvs. Then look at the prisoners, who are held cap-
tive at the quarantine stations, and for what ? They
do not knoAV why they should thus be deprived of
their liberty.  Then think of  the timid,  frightened
    4 
50         ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.

wives and  sweet little children,  alone at home by
themselves, deprived of their  natural friend  and
protector, Avho is held captive at the quarantine sta-
tion, much against his Avill, and hardly  knowing
A\hy or Avhereforc.  If this thing was exhibited by
an artist in a large photograph, how, think you,
Avould  it look?  Remarkably  Christian-like, of
course.
  Then imagine the  arrival of the goods,  wares
and  merchandise  at  the  quarantine  station;
glance  at  the  inspecting  officer—his brows  cor-
rugated  with   anger  and his  countenance  in-
flamed  Avith  Avrath,  the  trembling  merchants
stand  near him looking, for the last  time,  upon
their confiscated goods as they inhale the balsamic
odors that greet their nostrils in all  directions;
enjoy the  stenches arising from decaying  meats
and vegetables, piled up everywhere around them.
Does it not present  a mournful sight?  It looks
very like a civilized  Christian  community, and a
well executed picture of it Avould tell  the tale  ef-
fectually.
            From the Eoston Floridian.
    " FOR  GOD'S SAKE, HELP US !"

Such  is the  Availing cry  sent up by the plague- 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        51

stricken Fernandina, where hundreds are  sick and
dying with yellow fever, in want of medical attend-
ance  anel the necessaries of* a sick room.   Help
has  been given  freely by  the  neighboring cities
and towns, but it is wholly insufficient to  meet the
exigencies of the case.
  If there are any good, generous souls whom this
paper shall  reach, who  feel for  those  suffering
ones  and wish  to  contribute to  their aid, they
should do so Avithout  delay.
  Contributions left at this office will be forwarded
free of charge.
  Since the above  was put in type, an organized
movement for the relief of the yellow fever suffer-
ers has been made, and a  committee  appointed,
consisting of the following citizens of Boston : F.
AY. Lincoln,  William Endicott, and Stanton Blake,
Treasurer.
  Contributions  may  be made at Room  24, New
England  Building, corner of Milk  and Congress
streets, or enclosed to P. O. Box 703.
  The closing words of  the appeal of the mayor
of Fernandina are as folloAvs:
  i; AA^e cry for  help, and cry  for it hoav in the
name of that God who hath touched us Avith His
woeful judgment.  AVe  implore  von to  give us
help."

  The above shows the fruits  of quarantine  regu-
lations,  as AA'ell as the punishment  of being dis 
52         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

obedient to the laAvs of health and Nature.  Quar-
antine laAvs punish  the guiltless  as  avcII as the
guilty.   This is Avrong—because  Nature  does not
punish the guiltless, she rewards  them.
  Teach mankind that health and disease are the
fruits of obedience  and disobedience.   Whoever,
then, chooses to be  disobeelient,  must accept the
proper punishment attending it.  Let him be sick,
it is  but the natural results of his own  misconduct.
The  guiltless should not be deprived  of their lib-
erty on account of a few sinners, by  the quaran-
tine laws, and forced to  beg for their  living when
the times are as hard as they  are at   this time—
they  receive a far worse punishment  than  actual
sinners.  This  is a  cruel Avrong.   The sick might
be kept out, but  an exception  should  be  found in
favor of those avIio are healthy.
          From the Daily E\'ening Chronicle.

  A REMINISCENCE OF JACKSONVILLE
       TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO.

  All of our  citizens  will  recollect that during
the yellow fever epidemic in Savannah  in  1854,
the steamer  AVelaka, from that  city, disregarded 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.        53
the quarantine established  by the authorities  of
Jacksonville, and passed the city  on her  way  to
Palatka.  Also, that she Avas fired into Avhile  so
doing.
  AA^e have been  handed by a lady of this city, an
old copy of  the  Jacksonville Ncavs—Extra, dated
September 13, 1854.  From  it Ave republish the
folloAving interesting account  of the proceedings :
          GREAT EXCITEMENT!

THE STEAMER AVELAKA FIRED INTO—THE EXGIXEER
           REPORTED TO  BE WOUXDED.

   In anticipation of the steamer Welaka  attempt-
ing  to  run  the  quarantine, established  by  the
Town Council, the following resolution, offered by
Councilman Call, was unanimously adopted by the
Council:

   lieso/ved, That the Intendant  be  and is hereby
authorized and requested to take  such  forcible
steps as he may deem necessary to prevent future
infractions of our quarantine laws and regulations.

   Under  these instructions, volunteers Avere  en-
rolled, and a battery, consisting  of  a  twenty-four
and a brass six-pounder, were planted on  the bluff
in an open lot betAveen the mill  of Foster & Stev- 
54        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
  ens and Messrs. Mooney <fc Gookin's Foundry and
  Machine AVorks.
   The port physician Avas then  despatched  to  the
  quarantine ground at Dames' Point, with the Avarn-
  ing to Captain  King, that if he attempted to pass
  Jacksonville he would be fired into.  In order that
  the passengers who might be on board, should not
  be exposed to the danger of the fire, another mes-
  senger was  despatched to Mayport, Avith a like
  warning.  The passengers, if there were any, were
•  advised to go ashore at both of these points.  The
  port physician and messenger Avere sent down by
  the steamer Meyers.
   AVe also learn that  Mr. Bisbee, of the firm of
  Bisbee & Canova, agents of  the AVelaka, accom-
  panied by Captain Shaw, of the steamer Gaston,
  went down in the Meyers, and earnestly entreated
  him  not to endeavor  to pass Jacksonville.   His
  answer to them was that he Avas bound for Palatka
  and intended to go there.  His answer to the port
  physician  and  messenger was, " You have done
  your duty, but I am bound for Palatka."
   At eight o'clock on Sunday morning the volun-
  teers assembled,  according to order, established a
 military camp, planted sentries, and manned  their
 batteries.  A look-out was posted  upon the  dock
 of Messrs. Stevens & Foster's  mill, avIio  Avas  to
 announce the approach of a steamboat by the dis-
 charge of his musket.
   The  day passed off very quietly, very little ex- 
ORIOIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
,)0
citement being exhibited by either citizens or vol-
unteers, but a firm determination  Avas evinced by
every countenance, to uphold the laws Avhich they
were called upon to defend, at any sacrifice.  This
determination Avas not the result of a  sudden ebul-
lition of passion, but that of  a settled conviction,
that they Avere performing their duty, and in full
vieAv  of the  responsibility of their position.  At
sunset an evening gun Avas fired, and it Avas fond-
ly hoped that the Welaka would not make her ap-
pearance—that she had brought up at  the quaran-
tine ground,  and would respect the laws of the
town.  These hopes were soon  dissolved  by the
report of a musket  from the  look-out station, and
soon the smoke of a steamer  became  visible over
the point.
  As the steamer advanced she was ascertained to
be  the AVelaka, and the  batteries Avere  manned
and the port  fires lighted, ready for  a discharge.
As  she came  abreast of the  battery, a blank car-
tridge Avas fired to bring  her to, but as she disre-
gareled the warning, the guns Avere then  shotted,
and commenced a fire upon her.  It was hoav grow-
ing so dark that the aim of the guns  could not be
certain, and  the steamer  passed on  up the river.
It is supposed, hoAveArer, that she  Avas struck, and
a report  has just  come in that her engineer Avas
Avounded bv  a splinter  and carried ashore to the
residence of Dr. Ashurst, near Philips Point.
  The Town  Council  are in session this morning, 
56         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER

(18th inst.,) and what further measures will be re-
sorted to have not yet transpired.   AVe await the
result.
  The following is  from the charter of the town,
granted by the territorial legislature, endorsed by
Congress upon its passage through that body, and
subsequently  confirmed  when  Florida became a
State:
  "They shall have authority to guard against the
introduction  of infectious or  malignant diseases,
and for this purpose may prohibit  or regulate the
ingress or  approach  of  vessels into  the waters
within the limits of said corporation, and Avhen-
ever necessary, may compel  them,  under  fixeel and
certain  penalties, to  perform  quarantine,  and to
observe such other rules and  regulations as the
said council may deem proper by ordinance, to es-
tablish.
  BeloAV Avill be found the boundaries of the town,
which, it Avill be observed, takes the whole of the
river:

Ax Act to amend an Act to  incorporate the Town
                 of  Jacksonville.

  Sectiox 1.  Be it enacted  by  the Governor and 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         57

Legislative Council  of the  Territory of  Florida,
That s ) much of the act entitled  an act to incor-
porate the Town of Jacksonville, approved 10th
of February,  1841,  as defines the  boundaries of
said town be, and the same  is hereby,  repealed.
To take effect from and after the approval of this
act, and  that  from and  after said  approval the
boundaries of said town  shall be as follows—to-
wit : Beginning at a point  on  the south  bank of
St. Johns river, directly south from the  mouth of
Ilogan's  creek, thence north to the mouth of Ho-
gaifs creek aforesaid, thence along said  creek, as-
cending with the meanders of the  south branch of
said creek to  a point near the public road, (called
the King's road,) where said creek takes a direction
from nearly south-west to nearly  north-west front
said bend by a direct line,  nearly a southwest-
Avardly direction to the mouth of McCoy's  creek,
thence across the St. Johns river by a direct line
to Hendrick's. point, thence eastwardly along the
bank of St. Johns river to the point of beginning.
   Passed  the House 29th January, 1842.
   Passed the Senate 2 5th February, 1842.
   Approved 4th March, 1842.

   AAThat do you think of it? For the love of man-
kind they fired into the steamer and wounded the
engineer.   AYhat do you  think of it ?   That it
looks Christian-like?   Think  of it!  Look  at the
man who .did  the  firing ;  then look  at the  dying 
58        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER,

engineer; then  look  at his tearful Avife and  little
innocent children, standing by the side of their
elying father, of  Avhose kind,  careful  protection
they are so suddenly to be bereft.  Is it not awful ?
Hoav  would this scene look on a well executed pic-
ture,  let me ask you ?
   I say that  the man Avho appreciates and endorses
the act of the man Avho fired that shot, is not only
an unmitigateel  scoundrel, but  a murderer at heart.
He has the hellish spirit of  persecution in him yet_
He is hateful  and filled  Avith bitter  prejudices..
That  man  is not at peace with himself—still less-
with others.  But it is well to  say right here,

             " The death of the body
              Is but the life of the soul."

  I have not  much relish for  such scenes, for ray-
tastes lie quite in another direction.  I cannot credit
such  brutal  acts as our newspapers certainly do.
It Avas truly  a deed better suited  to the  habits  of
savages at some earlier period  of the world's  his-
tory  than to the usages of men claiming  to  be
civilized, and that, too,  in the middle of the last
century, Avhen  science,  art,  and  good  breedino-
were supposed to have reached their highest points
of  perfection.    It  seems incredible that such
could have been the entertained opinions of those
living at that time, or that such sickening customs
were not only tolerated—but enforced. 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        59

  Yes; and stranger still is it for us to realize that
this  barbaric laAv  has never as yet been repealed.
Would it not, I would  ask, be  far better for soci-
ety, if this most disgraceful law were erased from
the  statute  books of  the United States ?  There
can  be but one reply  to  such  a question !   This
quarantine law  has dug the graves of many.
       From the Daily Chronicle, October 18, 1ST7.

ORIGIN  OF  THE  YELLOW  FEVER  AT
                PORT  ROYAL.

  The following  is a dispatch to the  Savannah
News, from Port Royal:
  After a careful examination the physicians assert
that the  fever Avas undoubtedly brought here from
Fernandina by  one of the  New York steamers
which touch at this place, going and coming from
Fernandina.
  AATiat better commentary than the above could
be had upon the  wisdom and judicious action of
the Jacksonville Board of Health in shuttings off
all communication at the very first signs of dan-
ger, and thus  securing  uninterrupted health  and
future prosperity to our city. 
GO        ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.
   Are physicians  attempting to  teach mankind
something  similar to  that which priests  have
taught—impossibilities ?  They had better admit
the terrible mistake they have made, and at  once.
I once heard a laAvycr  say in open court,  " I had
rather have the judgment of a common jury than
that of a physician," and  I believe lie  uttered the
truth.
  This determination after the careful examination
of the physicians about the origin of the fever at
Port  Royal, appears to me  somewhat similar to
that of a priest,  after relating the silly  Flood
story.  But my friends, do you really place much,
if any, importance to that Flood story ?  Do you
even pretend to  assert  that the  atmosphere could
support moisture  enough to rain over the entire
earth to the depth of five miles,  to the  tops of the
highest mountains.  If it did not come from the
atmosphere, where did it come from,  and  where
did it go  to afterwards ?  And  Avas there  at any
time, in Nature or in the universe, any  more water
than there is to-day ?
   Does it seem scientific to  say that t\vo  or three
millions of animals, birds  and insects would volun-
tarily and  simultaneously congregate  from every 
ORIGIN  OF YELLOW  FEVER.        61
zone and continent upon the earth unto  Noah, to
be placed in the ark ?   If they  did not  come vol-
untarily, what brought them together ?  Noah Avas
busy building the ark for them,  and  he  could  not
attend to it.   Is it possible to believe that animals
from the tropics, and animals from the frigid zone,
and  from  all parts of the earth, all of different
natures, could be  shut up in a  tight box, water-
tight, the  only door and windows  closed, and  re-
main alive for any length of time ?   Is it possible
to believe that the food of such animals  as require
fresh  meat, fresh  fish, fresh  grass,  fresh  leaves,
quantities of worms, and insects of all kinds, some
of them even  requiring honey,  could be  provided
for and kept  in the ark, Avith  all that  aggregate
of animal life, some hundred and twenty animals
anel insects to every square yard the ark contained,
sufficient to last them  more than a  year ? Is it
possible to believe that Avhen the animals from the
warm countries disembarked, on the top  of  Mount
Ararat, said to be  seventeen  thousand feet above
the level of the sea, and five thousand feet above
the line of perpetual  siioav  and frost, they could
live until they had descended fifteen thousand feet
or more, where the weather Avas milder ?  Is it
possible to believe, or  even think, they could find
anything  to  eat  after all the animals  had been
killed,  and every  plant and tree inevitably  de-
stroyed by being a  year under  water ?   Is  it pos-
sible to believe that a  rainboAV never appeared un- 
62        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

til after Noah left the ark, some four thousand years
ago ?   Does not science teach that  rainbows have
been  produced for as  many hundred thousand
years as there has been a sun to  shine upon de-
scending drops of rain ?  Can you accout for  the
disappearance of  the Avater which  reached  to  the
tops of the  highest mountains?  AATiere could it
possibly have gone to ?


  Yellow fever has been  produced by  impurities
circulating through the system, and not by one of
the Ncav York steamers that touches at  Port Royal
going  and  coming from  Fernandina.   Poisoned
food anel drink, and a foul atmosphere were the ori-
gin of the fever, connected,  as they were, Avith
filthy bodies.  The man Avho  keeps his system  free
from all impurities need not fear the yellow feA'er.
         THE AVISDOM OF WOMEN.

  Woman, as she is, and not as she  shoulel be.  It
has   evidently  been  proven   that  women,  in
their  endurance, vital  resources, and  muscular 
ORIGIN OF  YELLOW FEVER.        Q3
strength, are superior to men. Women can endure
prolonged labor, privations, loss of food and sleep,
and sustain  unceasing care and watchfulness far
better than men can do.  And it is certain that she
can  teach the  Avorld  more   than  a  man,   and
civilize it more quickly than any  man  could do.
The false idea  of  man that  woman  is weak and
unfit to take any part in government business, is
one  of the  greatest mistakes that man has ever
made.
   Before I proceed further, I would  beg leave to
enquire what man has actually accomplished dur-
ing  all the long time that he has  possessed the
whole authority and power  of the government ?
Do they produce any evidence that they have ei\r-
ilized the world ?  AAHiat good have  thev done in
the world ?   In searching their records, clo Ave not
learn that  man has invariably been  the cause of
all our brutal and cruel Avars  ?   Do they not also
conclusively  prove that  man has always been the
author of all the damnable crimes that have ever
been  perpetrated  upon earth ?  Have  they not
given this evidence plainly by their behavior and
conduct, and eloes it prove anvthing in their favor?
Have they not  proved unworthy of the confidence
plaeeel in them ?  Have  they  faithfully  filled the
positions with  which  they have been   honored ?
Have they endeavored to preserve peace, or  have
they made Avar ?   Have they tried to protect pro-
perty, or have they sold it for taxes ? 
64        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
  The proclivities of a man toward peace are very
like those of a chicken-haAvk—along way from civ-
ilizing.   Can  they  show that they have civilized
the Avorld ?  If not,  avIio is to be blamed  because
the world is still in an uncivilized  condition—the
women?  No, reader; their  innocence never had
a voice in it.   They have never,  at any time, been
permitted a voice in the matter;  they have only
borne and suffered patiently under the government
which men have exercised and controlled  exclu-
sively.  AY omen to-day know  it to be  a fact, that
men alone are  absolutely unfit to supply the  actual
wants of the community around them.   It is, alas,,
too true that women have been forced to bear this-
long enough Avithout having anything to say  about
it, and this state of  things will not be  permitted.
to exist a great eleal longer.
 AYomen have made the discovery  that men have
not only Avithheld their rights and liberties, but they
have, in many  instances,  forced  them to act in
direct  opposition to their  OAvn better judgment-
Men may as well hear the  truth.  Of Avhat they
have been capable has been abundantly proved by
their  own  acts and doings ;  Ave have  no  need to
enquire Avhat these  acts are, as that Avould  make
the matter infinitely worse.
  Peace in the hands of women equal  co-ordinate
rights with men, and then peace, safety and hap-
piness for all mankind will be an assured fact.  No
man lives that is fully  qualified to  give the love 
          ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.        65

and  kind treatment  our  diseased  nation really
needs,  this  must come alone from  Avomen.   Men
are forced to suffer nearly as much as women from
the laws, as they exist at  present, most of Avhich
inflict serious  injury upon  both sexes,  and at the
same time  Avoman is  deprived of the right  to re-
move the wrongs by Avhich she is more or less sur-
rounded.   She must preserve silence, for she seems
not  to  be  recognized as a reasonable,  thinking
human being,  but  as an absolute slave,  subject to
the complete control of man,her sovereign lord and
master.   Has slavery ever been abolished, or will
it ever be?  Have equal  rights ever been estab-
lished ?    If so, why should not women be per-
mitted to partake  of them ?   Why not allowed:
an equal amount of freedom with man?   AYhy  is
it that she is thought to be unfit for office ?  Why
should  she not claim  her place  in the halls of
legislation and in Congress ?
   I  believe in  civilizing the Avorld ; I believe in
equal rights to be  divided equally betAveen Avomen
and men.   If  women are  human beings,  they
should be treated  as such, and not  made  subject
to men in  everything and anything.  The  most
io-norant man  is permitted to vote at an election,
Avhile  women, who  are educated,  talented and re-
fined,  are not allowed to  exercise  that privilege.
That would, indeed, be a  terrible  sin, for which
no expiation could be made.
     5 
66         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

  AVomen do not demand any advantages.   They
ask  only  for  equality with  man, anel  this boon
should be granted them Avithout any  further ele-
lay.   The women simply demand their rights,  and
if these arc not accorded them, it "will be a lasting
shame and stigma on our great nation.   All that
is  asked for  them is equal  rights.  They never
have yet been free ; they never have enjoyed equal
liberty  and equal  rights with mankind.   They
never have had the right to go to the legislature
or to Congress, nor have they the right to decide
by their  votes, avIio shall  and Avho shall not be
permitted to hold office; and avIiv? Because the Bible
record tells us she trespasseel !  yet she was able to
tell us the difference between good and evil, when
man could  not  elecide  Avith any degree of  cer-
tainty.
  Thank God, this old book has hael its day.  It  is
well known to every  one  that it  tells us grand
lies,  and  therefore  it is not  recognized by  the
learned among men  and  Avomen in any country or
clime.   I hold and  maintain that women have the
same right to take a part in our  government  that
man possesses, if she desires to exercise that ri«-ht
I say, that, as a human being, she is, in all respects,
man's equal,  and in'many cases his superior.  I
say it is a positive outrage  upon women  to make
them subject  to laws  and their  penalties,  while
they are not permitted to assist in  making or exe-
cuting these laws.    I  say  that a  brave woman 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.        67

ought to have just as much right  to decide by her
vote, Avhether our country shall be plunged into Avar
or remain at peace with all the Avorld, as much as
any gentleman or loafer,  Avho claims the right to
deposit his vote in the  ballot-box.    If women de-
sire to  vote,  Avhy not   alloAv them the  privi-
lege ?  Is it a harm or a sin for  women to vote ?
If so, I beg to be shown in Avhat the harm or sin
consists.   Is it Avrong for a woman to possess equal
rights Avith a man ? If it is, the community at large
ought to be made aware of the fact.   Shall she be
deprived of all her inherent  rights and privileges
because her time  ought to be occupied in seAving,
scouring, cooking and dressing,  Avhile  man  has
nothing else to elo but to meddle in politics?  Has
he not his oavii  business  to  attend to, as  well as
women, even if he does find plenty of time to attend
to politics and government  affairs.   AVhy is it a
sin for  women to attempt  to exercise  the  same
right, while at the same time  it is perfectly right
for men to do as they like in the matter?
   It is a grand thought, a sublime  idea, is it not,
for men to endeavor  to believe  that what is per-
fectly right for them  to do, becomes a glaring sin
for women the moment they endeavor to follow the
example  placed  before them.  There is a strange
inconsistency  here, it  seems to me, that  deserves
an explanation  of some kind.  What  makes  it
rhdit for man to do what Avoman cannot ?   Non-
sense ; what is right for a man is also right for a 
OS         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

woman, anel what is wrong in  one, is also a wrong
in the other.   Is it right for a man to  claim more
right  in  the  universe  than a woman?  If so, in
what does  the  right consist,  and  who gave him
this right ?
  That man who claims more right in the universe
than a woman, is  an infernal  scoundrel, a cheat,
and a villain, dangerous to the society in which he
exists.  Man is strong,  coarse and brutal, while
women are wise, kind and tender-hearted, and the
proper exercise of the  virtues, which they unde-
niably possess, is  just what is needed to restore
peace and happiness to our distracted country.
  The man Avho works against the liberty  of wo-
man, labors against equal rights,  and proves him-
self  a dangerous  man  to  civilized society.   He
proves his unfitness  to hold official position,   and
should not  be permitted to  serve as a juryman
because he cannot decide with impartiality.  He
sticks to one side, and thinks more of himself than
he does of others around him.  He cannot decide
between  right  and wrong, on account of his pre-
judices.  He  is unfit to send  to the legislature or
to Congress, because he is unfit to make impartial
laws.   Mankind will never be able to secure the
blessings of equal  rights, justice,  liberty and pro-
tection, as  long as women are excluded from the
jury-box, the halls  of legislation and Congress. 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         69
                QUARANTINE.

                  (Continued.')

                From the Sun and Press.

     FERN. 1XIJIXA EN (J 0 I '11. 1 GED.

MARKED  DECREASE  OF  THE  FEVER  -- ()\LV  A
  FEW  CASES  NOW  UNDER  TREATMENT -- THE
  WORKING PEOPLE  IN  A DESTITUTE AND PITIARLE
  CONDITION — IJALDAVIn's JOKE ON  JACKSONA'ILLE.

                    Baldwin,  October 17, 1377.

  The condition of affairs in  Eernandina as regards
the sickness there is very encouraging.  There are
very fcnv cases—probably not more than ten—now
on hand,  and those are of a mild  form.  A num-
ber of the nurses have left, anel most of the doctors
will soon  leave, there  being no further need for
them.
  Dr. Herndon Avas buried at five p. m. yesterday.
Dr. Martin has  been slightly indisposed for the
last day or  tAvo, but  his sickness is decieled to be
but a slight  bilious attack  brought  on by over-
exertion.   He has  no  symptons of yelloAV  fever.
The A\Teather continues pleasant anel favorable.
  The financial situation remains unchanged.  All
business is necessarily at a stand-still, and nothing
■can be  done until frost, anel in  consequence,  the
large  number of Avorking people are in  a deplor- 
 70        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

 able  condition.   With no possible means of earn-
 ing the common  necessities of life,  they are com-
 pelled to accept charity.   Particularly  is this the
 case Avith the colored population, and it is rumored
 that the recent  developments  indicate an inclina-
 tion on the part of the lower  and unruly elements
 to take  matters  into their oavii hands, and  it is
 hopeel that  anything in the shape of a riot  may
 be avoided.   There is, happily, a large number of
 the colored  people  with more education and re-
 spectability  who  will  discountenance  anything
 laAvless or disorderly, and exert a strong influence
 over their brethren.
  There is quite a number  of  slight cases of sick-
 ness around  Callahan, but nothing in the least to
 give alarm or cause uneasiness, and no deaths have
 occurred for some time.
  BaldAvin once  more  can boast of  a perfectly
 clean bill of health.  There is not a case of sick-
 ness in  or around the place.   The refugees have
 returned, and business is conducteel  as usual.   It
 is somewhat amusing to watch the trains pass us at
 ten miles an hour with closed  Avindows and cylin-
 der cocks open. It savors of the ridiculous.  Gaines-
 ville and Cedar Key have raised their  quarantine
 against us,  and it is  sincerely hoped that Lake
 City  and Jacksonville may do  likewise, that we
 may soon enjoy free communication Avith the out-
 side world.


  It is well for us to learn to  obey Nature's laws
in order to escape  her punishment.  All the knowl-
edge  man  requires,  is to understand the laws of
Nature, and  the  consequences that naturally  fol-
low, as they are  obeyed or disobeyed. 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         71
             WHAT MUST  I  DO

To  be eternally  happy?   To  believe  anything
without any proof of its truthfulness  or falsity—
would that make me eternally happy ? No! Avell,
then, what must I do in  order to bring about  this
desired result ?  Do good and prevent evil !
               WHAT IS EVIL?

  Everything that is said and done  against the
truth,  or  which blunts the good morals of man-
kind, depriving them  of liberty, and  exposing
them to suffer hardship,  to  oppress, anel suppress
the truth—to beg !
WHY  IS A BEGGAR AN  EVIL  SINNER?

  Because the beggar asks for the surplus labor of
the hard working man's earnings,  and neglects to
labor himself for an honest living.  I cannot dAvell
any longer upon  this topic,  but  before I close I 
7'J         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEYEil

would say  that cleanliness anel healthy, desirable
food is  what  makes plants grow strong, healthy
and  vigorous—not  only plants, but  animals  and
men.  But uncleanliness and unwholesome food is
what makes  plants, animals  and  human beings
sickly, weak and feeble.
         INTOXICATING  LIQUORS

Are, to a great extent,  the cause of yellow fever
in the Southern  States.   I blame the doctors for
liquor  being so  generally  used,  because they re-
commend it as a stimulant.   I say it is no stimu-
lant; it is, instead, a virulent poison, and the  di-
rect cause of many evils.
  Let me ask, AATiat good has ever the use of  in-
toxicating liquors done to mankind ?  Has it made
people sober and honest?  Has it diminished crime
or sickness ?  Has it brought about morality, hon-
esty, industry, safety, peace, happiness or  health ?
Has it exhibited any  economy,  ability or  talent ?
Has it increased the Avealth of the poor or rich;
has it civilized the world or aided the poor ?  Has
its use emptied our jails and penitentiaries of crim-
inals ?   Has it ever prevented murderers from go-
ing to the gallows?   Has it helped  the sick in  our 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         73

hospitals, or kept paupers  away  from' the poor-
ho--.se ?   Has it set the  drunkaud a good example,
or induced him to  be more kind to his children ?
Is it a  good thing  for education ?  Does it give
instructions  in gooel behavior ?  Does its use pro-
mote refinement and civilization?   Is it a benefac-
tor to the human race ?   Does it support lionest
labor and help to create Avealth?
  Thousands of evils, connected  with  the use  of
intoxicating liquors I might name, and I will name
in another work of mine.   Parties, who desire the
Avork,  should send  money and  orders  in time.
Price, fifty cents  each.   I shall not suppress the
interests of  morality, nor Avill I mock at the truth.
Intoxicating liquor is the greatest evil spirit in the
Avorld, and therefore, must not be preferrcel by the
majority over any pure spirit.  But, as I said be-
fore, the doctors say it is a stimulant, and  this
is the main cause why there are so many drunkards.
People should think for themselves, and not trust
quite so much in the doctors.   Hoav can intoxicat-
ing liquors be stimulating, when they rob a man
of his  common sense and strength—making  him
unfit to perform any kind of labor.
              LAI AGINATION.

The imagination of most persons generally pos- 
74        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

sesses too much power.   If, during the prevalence
of yellow fever, the symptoms of the disease were
kept secret from the world at  large, as they are in
other complaints generally, not one-eighth of those
Avho uoav die, Avould fail to recover from the  dis-
ease.   It is  really the diseased imagination which
causes death in many instances, for yelloAV fever
is not worse, nor  is it more contagious, than many
other diseases.  The imagination of the patient is
excited to its  very utmost, and here lies the diffi-
culty.   I  could produce plenty of  proof on this
question,  but  you can  read  Avhat  many authors
have written upon  this subject, and you will find
they have Avritten only the truth.
  I have slept in the same bed  Avith yelloAV fever
patients, and  I have nursed  them over and  over
again.   Cholera  morbus,  small-pox and typhoid
fever are all far more  dangerous than yellow fever.
I possess a great practical experience of all  dis-
eases, and it is not  this  alone ;  I  possess other
information, equally valuable, that  I  shall place
before the public at an early date.


  Never,  at any time, permit  any sweaty clothing
to be kept in  our  about your house.  Have your
clothes Avashed as soon as they are taken from your
body.   Never wear, at any time, your  oAvn sAveaty
clothes or those of any  other person.    They  are
poisonous, and the direct cause of elisease, and for 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER         75

this  reason they  should be immediately washed
and ironed.
         THE CAUSE OF DISEASES !

  When  we consider the cause of diseases, anel dis-
cover what it is that destroys health, we cannot
avoid surprise, when Ave ascertain that in a majori-
ty of instances disease is produced by taking poison
into the  living system, either by way of stimulants
or in the shape of medicines,  prescribed by physi-
cians, from  drug shops, where they are kept for
the purpose of restoring the sick to  health.
  It would be well for us if we knew the exact anal-
ysis of these so-called  " stimulants" and  " medi-
cines."   But I  shall  say more upon this subject
by-and-bye.  I  just hoav  Avish to  call  attention
to the false position taken by the  doctors Avho pro-
fess to be able to give health to the  sick by the ad-
ministration of  the  most  poAverful poisons—an
idea directly opposed  to  reason  and   common
sense.
  Poison does not possess  the properties required
for restoring sick persons to health ; but on the con-
trary, is  the direct cause of sickness.
  Diseases are directly  caused by  obstructions in
the system that  cannot  be removed  by  poison, for 
76         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
 the reason that poison is in itself an obstruction ;
 the living system acts against it,  and tries hard to
 expel  anel cast the  poison  out.    This creates a
 wrangle  between poison and the  living  system.
 The moment this  wrangle commences between the
 system and   the  obstructions which have  been
 introeluced into  it,  a feeling of pain is  perceived
 by the person in whom it takes place, and this is
 Avhat is called  sickness or disease.  The poison is
 cast out  and the stomach  remains.  Noav, as Ave
 see, the obstruction must be removed, in order to
 free the system of poison,  it becomes self-evielent
 that Ave cannot free  the  system of poison by  ael-
 ministering  or admitting  more  poison  into  the
 system.   Poison does not, nor can it, remove poi-
 son.  Poison  destroys health, but never restores
 health to  the sick.  Poison, taken into the  system
 will produce  disease; anel to inhale,  eat or elrink
 poison will increase,  but cannot diminish  sickness.
 Poison is  a destructive agent—not to sickness, but
 to health, and  being the cause of sickness,  how
can it produce health ?
  Poison  to  the human system is precisely Avhat
 fire is to a young tree, instead of restoring it, com-
 pletely destroys health.
  Whosoever administers poison  to a human be-
ing commits murder.   A physician should have no
more  right to administer a dose  of  poison  than
any other  man has, as I understand it. 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER,         77

   The following appeared in the Jacksonville Sun
and Press of September 27,  1877:



       BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING.

   The board met  this  morning in response  to a
call from the president.   A quorum present.
   The instructions given by  the president to quar-
antine officers since last  meeting Avare adopted.
   Upon  the matter  of  alloAving  Mr. McQ. Saun-
ders  to  come  into the  city, a vote of the board
having been taken, permission was denied, and it
was ordered that he must not remain within ten
miles  of the  city,  until further orders of  this
board.
   Report of Dr. A.  Gindrat, on  a lazaretto,  re-
ceived and placed on  file for  further reference.
   A letter  of  application from Miss Mooncy, of
Fernandina, to enter the city, Avas read, and, by
vote of the  board, the same Avas refused.
   Dr.  Baldwin read a  communication  from the
health committee calling attention  to   the rules
of the board of health, with  the following resolu-
tion :

  Therefore, Be it  resolved, That the teachers of
the public  schools  of this city, shall, before ad-
mitting  any pupils  into   their respective  schools^
furnish  to  the  health   officer  satisfactory  evi-
dence that each pupil has been satisfactorily vacci-
nated; or if such evidence cannot be produced, the
said fact shall  be reported  to the health officer,
who shall require the  same to be vaccinated before-
becoming a  pupil of said school or schools. 
78         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

  Adopted, and referred to  the health commit-
tee.
  The health officer made  a report of the health
of the city as being good, and that the Avork of
cleaning is going on  Avell  and rapidly ;  and that
he had  found no suitable place for a lazaretto, and
that the city would have to build one if needed.

  After reading the  above resolution of the boarel
of health, I Avrote a communication to the editor
of the Sun anel Press for publication, of which the
following is a copy :

  " I Avoukl  like to say,  through  your  valuable
paper, the Sun  and  Press,  that I noticed  in your
issue of the 27th of  September, 1877,  a resolution
adopted by the  boarel of health,  commanding all
children  attending  public  schools, before  being
admitted, to be  vaccinated.  I think this is a great
Avrong to health, liberty anel freedom.
  "This resolution  overturns the  foundations of
health,   liberty  and  freedom.   This  vaccination
business shoukl  be left to our  OAvn judgment.  If
the public have  not this  individual right, then avc
are not any longer free, avc elo not live any longer
in a republic.
  " The moment avc admit eleaelly poisons into our
living systems, Ave permit diseases to take holel of
us.  This poison, Avhich is forced into  a person by
the so-called process of vaccination  cannot dimin-
ish sickness but  is sure to increase disease.  Poison
is the destructive agent Avhich destroys health anel
the  seeel of  disease  and sickness,  and therefore,
how can it be  the  cause  of health ?   I  say that
the  contrary of your doctrine is the  exact "truth, 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        79

and that  the present   practice of  the  board  of
health is false.
  " In order to restore  the sick to health, we must
restore the living system, and aid it  in freeing it-
self  of all  accumulated  poison.  If Ave do this,
health is the consequence ; if we work to the con-
trary, death is the result.  To vaccinate  a person
is planting the  seed  of diseases.   The living sys-
tem acts  against  deadly poisons.   What are dis-
eases ?  Efforts  to remove the impurities  of the
living system.
           "Respectfully,
                          " August Buesixg."

  The  above letter was sent to the Sun and Press
office,  but up to this  date it  has never  appeared
in print in that paper.   AVhy  it Avas not printed,
I am not able to saw
  POISON IS THE CAUSE OF DISEASES.

  I am iioav compelled to say it is from the Avant
of knoAvIedge to state that  diseases  are removed
by poison.    I say that poison  is the cause of dis-
ease, and Iioav then can it be the cause of health.  If
this is  not the fact, I call upon  you to disprove it,
and  show  the  cause of  disease.   I  say  again,
tliat  poison cannot  remove  poison,  nor can it
remove disease  Avithout  producing  other  evils 
SO        ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.

equally  as great, or  worse than the first.   I say
that every dose of medicine, taken into the  system
which contains poison, aiels in the  destruction of
health and produces diseases in various forms.  It
makes no difference whether this poison is inhaled,
swalloAved or in any other Avay admitted  or forced
into the  system, it surely  destroys  health.   In
many instances poison destroys the diseased sys-
tem,  and Avhen this is  done, it produces what we
call death.  I  tell* you  mankind do  not die of dis-
eases—they elie of poison, Avhich is inhaled or other-
Avise forced into the living system.   I tell you that
if this poison avc re removed or extracted from the
living system, instead of being forced more  into it,
gooel health Avould be the result.
  But this is not done ;  the present practice is to
force poison into a sick person instead of extract-
ing it from the system, and it seems to me like try-
ing to restore  a log to its   natural state  by fire—
after it has been burned to  ashes.  Is it not laugh-
able ? I make use of this illustration to show pre-
cisely Avhat fire and poison  can do—so far as re-
storing anything to its natural state is concerned.
You can see for yourselves what this is in practice,
and how it is opposed by common sense.
  Why,  could Ave  expect  anything better  than
this ?  Does  not every business  man try to keep
his business going ?   Does not the gardener plant
in order to produce something to live off of? and 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        81
could  you expect physicians to do otherwise, or
adopt any other course.
   I  cannot  comprehend,  that  bodies which have
been destroyeel  by disease or  poison  can ever
again be restored to their natural state with drugs,
poisons or medicines.   I  cannot understand why
vaccination  should prevent healthy  bodies  from
getting sick.   I  believe that by vaccination the
seeds of  disease  are  sown.  Is a clean  soil kept
(dear from hateful weeds  by sowing hateful seeds
upon the  clean soil?  It is clear to my mind that
this is something  that  cannot very well be done.
The only way that I know of is to keep hateful:
seeds out of the soil, if you wish to keep it pure.
clean and free from weeds.  If we sow Avheat in 3
pure soil,  avc expect it to bring  forth similar gran,
in due  season, but  if we sow  hateful weeds in a
pure soil,  what can Ave  expect  but a crop of hate-
ful weeds.  If  Ave expect anything to the contrary
we give ample proof that avc are greatly  in need.
of knowledge.   If avc soav the  seeds of disease ia
a pure system, Ave know  exactly what sort >of ft
growth to expect.
   ATaccination ! What  is  it ?
   Forcing (sowing) filthy matter, the substance of
running sores,  into the pure and healthy systems
of young  and innocent  children, at once produces
inflammation and excessive pain.  A^accination is
not a remedy to prevent or diminish disease ; but
that it increases disease  I have ample  proof,  t
have also  plenty of proof that, while  the natural
system is easily destroyed, it  cannot well be re-
stored by  poisonous  drugs or medicines to its nat-
ural state.
   I cannot well comprehend how a  gardener can
keep his soil free from  hateful  weeds by  sowing
    6 
82        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
the seeds thereof directly in the  clean  soil.  By
adopting such a course, he might be very sure that
people Avould call him crazy.  Is it not laughable
that doctors pretend to keep a pest aAvay from the
people by sowing  that pest into a  healthy sys-
tem ?
  And even if  this pest  Avas sown into a diseased
system instead  of a healthy one, it Avould fail ab-
solutely to cure or  palliate the disease, anel would
make it a great deal worse, because there Avould be
that much more impurity aelcled to the system, and
that much more would  have to  be thoroughly ex-
tracted before the health Avas restored.  Our physi-
cians are pursuing a wrong course; they are doing
exactly Avrong insteael  of exactly right; they are
sowing evil seeel in order to keep the system clear
of it.  AVhat do you think of this?
  I  am  perfectly aware  that certain people,  how-
ever  learned  and intelligent they may be, when
biased by prejudice, are apt to  exhibit a strong
tendency towards ignorance.   In fact, such things
as " remedies" do  not exist, except  in the im-
agination, but  the consequences  certainly elo.  If
remedies  really  existed, we ought to be able to
change an old cotton coat  into its former natural
bloom or cotton flowers  again.  This, avc  are, of
course, unable to do—consequently we can know
but little positively of remedies.
   There is no benefit to be derived in telling peo-
ple, " Do you do so and so,  and then, if you are
taken sick, I will restore you  to health."   I had
 rather  become thoroughly  acquainted  with the
causes instead of the consequences of sickness.  If
a person is taken down sick, it is because he has done
 something which had a direct tendency to produce
sickness.   If  Ave endeavor  to ascertain the  cause 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEATER.        83

which has produced this  sickness,  we are  able to
give full explanations, and the moment Ave fully un-
derstand the cause, we should endeavor to avoid it
by every means in our power. AATiat is it that pro-
duces sickness among mankinel ?   Is it  not  poison
which has been, at some time, taken  and received
into the system ?  Cannot you think of something
which  you have eaten or drank,  Avhich has made
you sick?  If you ever ascertain that any article
of food does  not agree with you,  avoid the use of
it by all means.   Prefer .health to sickness  under
all  circumstances, even if you are obliged to sacri-
fice your appetite for certain articles of food.

  The very best way to preserve  your health, is to
get out of your bed every morning about 5 o'clock.
The first  thing  you  must  do is  to  take a good
blood-warm bath; have plenty of soap and water,
together  with a soft brush, and  give  the  whole
body a good, hard scrubbing from head to foot.
Have a coarse towel and rub the skin hard, so as
to  get up an  enlivening Avarmth over  your whole
physical  system.   Then dress yourself in clean,.
well-washed  clothing, and remove your bed  into
the sun for  an hour or two.  Take from  one to
two hours' exercise  before breakfast.  Let  your
breakfast consist of oatmeal or  grits-soup,  and
 graham bread, one egg, and good, SAveet butter.
           OAT-MEAL  SOUP.

For oat-meal  soup you first take a quart of  soft 
84        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
water and let it boil  thoroughly.   Meantime  have
three ounces  of oat-meal dissolved in  half a pint
of cold Avater, and stir this carefully into the boil-
ing Avater, and let it  boil until it is  thoroughly
cooked.
HOW  TO  MAKE  AVHOLESOME  GRAHAM
            BREAD OR BISCUITS.

  Into one part of colel, soft Avater stir tAvo parts
ol rather coarsely grounel graham flour,  made
from the very best of white wheat.   Sift in slowly
with one hand, while stirring with the other, thus
endeavoring to get in as much air as possible. If the
flour is made from red  wheat,  a little  more  than
two parts of meal  will be required.  The latter
should always be thick  enough  so it will not settle
flat.  If the mixture is too thin, the biscuit will be
likely to be flat  and  blistered; if too  thick, they
will be  tough and heavy.  In the first case, the
batter  will  not  be  of  sufficient firmness to retain
the air; and if made too thick, it will be found stiff
and unyielding.  No salt, soda, or yeast should be
used.
                BAKING.

The  loaves or biscuits  should be made small. 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        85

The pans must be heated very hot before dropping
the batter in.   A very hot oven  is absolutely re-
quired.  The loaves should be baked from twenty-
five to thirty minutes.  In order to prevent  stick-
ing, smear the inside of the baking pans with sweet
oil or fresh butter, and then the loaves will come out
nicely Avithout any trouble.
                FOR DINNER

Eat  boiled  vegetables or  fruit,  but do not  eat
any beef or pork.
                FOR  SUPPER
Eat nothing!

  Tobacco should be avoided in ail its forms, as
well as every kind of intoxicating liquors.   If you
feel like drinking, drink water, and retire to your
bed about nine o'clock in the evening.
A  SIMPLE CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.

A  Brooklyn man writes to  the  Sun : I drank 
86         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
 more intoxicating liquor from the year 1857 to the
 last day  of 1873 than any other person I ever
 heard of ; and in the time, knowing this sure cure,
 did not practice it on myself, but for fun, did prac-
 tice it  on many others,  and effected permanent
 cures.  The remedy  of the cure is this : " AVhen a
 person  finds he must have a drink, let him take
 a drink of water, say two or  three  swalloAvs, as
 often as  the thirst  or craving  may  desire.   Let
 him continue this practice.  His old chums will
 laugh ;  but  let  him persevere,  and  it will be a
 week before the appetite for any kind of stimulant
 will disappear  altogether, and water be taken to
 quench  the natural  thirst.   If at any  time the
 victim  should feel  a craving, let him take the
 first opportunity and obtain "a SAvalloAV of water,
 and he can pass and repass all saloons.  AVhen he
 goes  home at night  he  will  feel satisfied  and be
 sober and have  money in his pocket.   I com-
menced this  practice the  first  day  of 1873 and
never think of taking a drink of stimulants.
  I pronounce the above remedy excellent.
   Oatmeal contains more nutriment than any other
grain.   Sometime  ago I spoke of this to a homceo-
pathic physician, and he denied it, alleging  it was
horse-food, but not good  for human beings to eat.
I replied to him, "If a horse obtains his°strength
from oats, Avhy  will  it  not give the same strength
to men ?"  This settled our conversation upon this
subject at  once.   And I firmly believe that  oat-
meal contains  more  strength and is more  healthy
for animals and men  than any other grain that can
be named.   This has  been  effectually  proved in
Europe.  And I also assert that  it acts  upon men 
ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.         87"
precisely  as it does  on animals,  and Avill give all
the strength and force  that  men  are in need of.
Oatmeal should  also be  used by sick people, in-
stead of beef-tea.
              DISINFECTANTS.

  The folloAving is from the Sun  and Press.  It is
supposed to be an advertisement:
       A DISINFECTANT SUGGESTED.

               Bkooklyx, September 22, 1877.

         To the Editor of the New York Herald.

 ^ AY ill you please advise the people of Fernandina,
Florida,  that  a mixture  of  the following acids
viz.,  twelve ounces  muriatic  acid,  four ounces
nitric acid, one ounce oil of vitriol, (sulphuric acid)
—the nitric acid to be put in the muriatic, and the
oil of  vitriol  by  drops into the  mixture of muri-
atic and nitric acid*,  the same to be put  in a por-
celain cup, which is to be placed  in warm water—
will  produce  a  gas of chloride, which  destroys
entirely the miasmatic poisonous  atmospheric  sub-
stances, which are the originators of yelloAV fever.
  The cup with above  mixture,  Avhich mixture is
by no means a  medicine, and should never be used as 
88         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FLYER

such, but only as a sure preventer of  the malady
and  the spreading thereof, and thorough purifier
of the air, should be put in every room  or any
place Avhere  yellow  fever  is  prevailing.   It is a
©heap preventer of the disease, costing only about
Jwenty-five cents.
                THE AUTHOR

Would like to ask the kind reader whether he has
aoticed  the  disinfectant  suggestion.   If  not,  I
would like him to read it.  And then the author
would like to ask  the  reader whether he is ac-
quainted with the above  poisons—nitric acid and
vitriol ?  If not, go and purchase a little, and then
put a single drop of it upon your skin—just simply
for the  fun of it.   Then look at your skin, and
aftenvards look at a man Avho has got the  yellow
fever.  Then,  for your own satisfaction, examine,
stop and think.  Look at the man with the poison
of nitric  acid and vitriol, watch him and see how
he sends a poisoned odor into the atmosphere, in
order to get the atmosphere free of poison.   Does
it not look precisely like seeing a man throw heaps
?»? dry Avooel onto a fire, hoping to extinguish the
fee by that process.
  What  ought to be done in order  to produce  a
pure atmosphere ?   AVould it be  advisable to add
s greater amount of poison to an already poisoned
atmosphere in order to free it entirely from  poi-
son ? 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        89
   AVhat is really the cause  of the atmosphere be-
 ing impure. Is it the vile oelors of poisons exposed
 to the atmosphere—such as  nitric acid and vitriol?
 or is it the odors that emanate from  a beautiful
 rose, SAveet violets or blooming mignonettes ? Will
 you believe or be persuaded into the belief that a
 fire can be extinguisheel by throwing an additional
 quantity of dry wood into the fire ?  AVill you be-
 lieve that a poisoned atmosphere can  be purified
 by exposing an additional quantity  of poison ?
 Noav,  reader, if you believe  that  these   things
 can be done, you believe in  impossibilities.
   Could you, even for a moment, believe that 'this
 poison existing  in  the atmosphere, could  be re-
 moved by introducing an additional quantity  of
 poison ?   Would it be possible to make the air less
 impure by this process ?  Do you know what that
 Avord  " add "  means ?  Yes ? AH right, then; you
 know,  then, it does not mean  to lessen, but to in-
 crease.   You increase the impurities of  the atmos-
 phere.   That  is Avhat you do.   To be pure means
 free of all  impurities and poisons.  This is  what
you shoulel have knoAvn long ago.
THE CAUSE OF  SICKNESS AND DEATH.

  Noav let us enquire about the  causes of  sickness
and death.  Do you  suppose that you  could live
long by inhaling  nitric acid and vitriolic  gases ?
What difference  is there betAveen  inhalation and 
90         ORIGIN OF-YELLOW FEVER.

drinking ? You suppose that by inhaling poison you
produce health, while the act of drinking it would
kill ?  Noav, my friends, let me inform you that it
kills both Avays—one is a sIoav poison, while the other
is a quick one.   Being drank,  it kills instantane-
ously, but if inhaled, you are first taken sick; and
then,  by taking another dose  of drug  poison on
the top of it, you are killed slowly—similar to the
way in  which the sun drives the  dampness from
the earth.  It is not done  at once.   Oh, no!  not
by any means.
           PURE ATMOSPHERE.

  AYell,  then, Avhat must Ave elo, in order to keep
the atmosphere  pure and healthy?    Why, you
must free it of all the impurities it contains.  Bury
them deep in  the ground.
HOAV  TO MAKE  A  VERY  PURE  ATMOS-
                   PHERE.

  The city authorities should see to it and elo it—
if the owners are too poor to do it.  During every
July month  all unpainted  Avooden  houses  and 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         91

fences should be whitewashed, inside and outside,
with the following
         BRILLIANT WHITEWASH.

  Many have heard  of the brilliant stucco  white-
wash on the east end of the President's house at
Washington.  The following is a receipt for it.  It
is gleaned from the National Intelligencer, Avith
some additional improvements, learned by  experi-
ments :
  Take half  a bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack
it with boiling Avater, cover it during the process
to keep in the steam.  Strain the liquid through  a
fine seive or  strainer, and add  to it a peck of salt,
previously well  dissolved in Avarm  water; three
pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and
stirred in boiling hot;  half a  pound of powdered
Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, Avhich
has been previously dissolved by soaking it well,
and  then  hanging it over a  sIoav  fire, in a small
kettle within a large  one filled Avith  water.  Add
fivevgallons of hot Avater to the mixture, stir it Avell
and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt.
  It should be  put on right hot; for this purpose
it can be  kept in a  kettle on  a portable furnace.
It is said that about a pint of this mixture Avill cover
a square yard upon the outside of a house, if prop-
erly applied.  .  Brushes more or less small may be
used according to the neatness of the job required.
It answers as well as oil  paint for  wood, brick or
stone, and is  cheaper.   It retains its brilliancy for
many years.  There is nothing of the kind  that
Avill  compare with it—either  for inside or outside
walls. 
•92        ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.
  After having everything AvhiteAvashed, inside as
well as outside, then begin  to wash your house
•clean,  and that very clean.   Keep your windows
and doors open. Around the house you plant flow-
ers—such as monthly roses, violets, sweet mignon-
ettes, and other attractions.  Every day fill  your
house Avith fresh bouquets of flowers.
  Now, in case any one is sick in  the house, with
any disease that people call contagious, in order to
get pure air  and produce a pure atmosphere, you
simply go to  a sand-hill, and procure  a tpiantity of
fresh, clean white sand.  With this sand you coyer
jour floors about half an inch in depth, renewing
it twice each day.  Never let it remain in  the
house longer  than twenty-four hours at most; then
SAveep it out very thoroughly, throwing fresh sand
in its place.  At the same time have  four  earthen
pots in the room, filled  with fresh, nice and pure
cold water, which will absorb all the  impurities of
the atmosphere, and see that  the contents are  re-
newed at least once in every six hours. Never use
any other disinfectants  than  those I  have recom-
mended, and these should only be used in the case
of contagious diseases.  It will cost no money and
very  little trouble.  Never let  any  dirt  remain
.about the corners in your house, or permit any
poisons to enter your dwelling.
PARTIES FROM CONTAGIOUS DISTRICTS.

  AVhen an attempt is made to enter another city 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.        93
the parties making the attempt should be received
and  treated  as  friends.   Because the  disease  of
yellow fever exists in the place from Avhence they
came, they should not be  punished for it, as  it is
clearly no fault of theirs.  They simply desire not
to associate  with the sick and diseased, perhaps-
believing honestly that  the malady is contagious,
which it is not.  They ought not, therefore, to be
exposed and  made to suffer hardships for the sins
of other parties.  That is undeniably wrong.
   If the city authorities actually believe that yel-
low fever is  contagious, in this case they  might
insist that people coming from places where the
elisease is known to exist, should be  purifieel before
being permitted to enter  the city they desire  to
visit.
   This  purification process should  consist  of a.
Russian  steam-bath,  and the visitors  should be
made to swallow and inject at least  a quart  of
milk-warm Avater unflinchingly. They should drink;
and inject  it with pleasure, without  saying a word
against  it.  Their clothing should  then be  well
steamed; then be dried in a hot room,  and  well
ironed afterwards with hot irons.    Parties going
through this process should be required to pay one
or tAvo dollars, in order that no expense might ac-
crue to the city.
   Railroad cars and steamers coming from what are
called infected districts,  might be well purified.
with boiling water.
   The house  of reception for visitors  might be-
separated into two distinct compartments, one for
the occupancy of ladies,  and the other for the use
of gentlemen.   No person should be permitted to
remain in this building any longer than is  absolute-
ly necessary  for them to pass through the purifi- 
94         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

cation  process.   AVhen visitors  have been  thor-
oughly purified, they shoukl then be  enjoined to
eat no meats, drink no intoxicating  beverages and
avoid all  use  of tobacco.  They should eat but
little and let their diet be  composed 01 well boiled
vegetables, fruits, graham breael and oatmeal.


  I propose to get out a second  edition of this
A'olume, in Avhich I shall speak at length  of  those
things  you all desire  to  knoAV.   This book has
been hastily  Avritten—say  in about two months'
time, anel  this Avas too short a time to think and
write of all that coulel be saiei upon the  subject
of yelloAV fe\rer.  In addition to this, I  Avas obliged
to attend  to my  grocery  business,  and Avas  often
interrupted in my thoughts.  I hope to get so that
I need not pay any attention to the grocery  busi-
ness, but elevote all my time to writing and   issu-
ing books that I clearly love.
  I am willing for others to differ with me, but
I would like that every able person would  write
and  speak his sentiments  on this and on  all  other
subjects.
BY  WHAT ARE  CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
                  KNOWN ?

  If this is what the kind reader desires to know,
let him read  the thirteenth chapter of Leviticus 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.         95

and he will  discover a way  to determine whether
a disease is, or is not, contagious.  But times, such
as are  there described, thank God,  have passed
aAvay,  never, never  to return, and I am  in hopes
that all of the  wild,  chimerical,  superstitious  be-
liefs noAV in existence, will pass away in  a similar
manner anel be laughed at in future, as  Ave now
laugh at the thirteenth chapter of Leviticus.
  It is a very  foolish, nonsensical,  and  supersti-
tious belief  for any one to believe that disease of
any kind is  really contagious.  Entertaining such
a  belief has  been the  primary cause of a  vast
deal of wretchedness and misery  upon this  earth
of ours.  Induce mankind to  stop their  evil acts
and behaA'e  better hereafter, and at the same time
do all  the good you  can yourself to those around
you.   Disease arises from one single cause alone,
and that is,  a disobedience of the  laws of Nature.
      THE CAUSE OF FUMIGATION.

  A schooner was fumigated yesterday  at quaran-
tine, and one of the  results of the process was
over a barrelful of dead rats.—Pensacola Herald.
  The above extract contains all the proof neces-
sary  to convince the reader of the  actual charac-
ter of the terrible poisons generally used for purposes
of fumigation.  Did these rats die of  yelloAV fever ? 
90         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER
Or did they die from the effects of poison that had'
been used by the fumigators?  Certainly, any one
can perceive it Avas the poison that killed them.
   In the same  Avay the life  of  our quarantine offi-
cer at Baldwin Avas sacrificed.   It Avas his duty to
fumigate the mail, and in doing  it he lost his life.
It is precisely  the same process  as that described
in the Pensacola Herald.    If people only knew
to a certainty   Avhat Avas the cause of death, then
they Avould, indeed, having something to Avonder
about.
   No poison should ever be used under any circum-
stances ;  if it will kill rats it "will kill mankind  as
Avell.   As though yelloAV fever Avas to be treated
like an insect or animal, that it should be poisoned
precisely as Ave would poison rats, in order to get rid
of it.  It is,  indeed, truly laughable.  In what dark
ignorance many of us are groping yet.  If poison
is the cause of  yellow fever, Iioav  can it kill  yellow
fever ?   The  administration  of  poison  increases
the natural  savage  strength  of the fever.  You
should decrease your poisons instead  of  endeavor-
ing to increase  them, as you are noAV doing.  Then
you will get it right, and then there will  belittle or
no fear of your getting sick.
  What  a remarkable  discovery of  professional
views  has  taken place within*  the  past  hun-
dred  years  with regard  to  diseases.    Medi-
ical practitioners  would do well  to  acknowledge
promptly their  gross ignorance  and many  errors.
The fact that they still continue to search for new
remedies is a convincing proof that, as yet, they have
found out nothing reliable that may be successfully
used in the treatment of diseases.  How is  it then
that people yet complain,  day  by day, of being
sick and diseased ?  Will  any physician  daresay 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        97

that he cures diseases ?  Have any of them learned
Iioav to cure diseases, or is this information yet to
be taught them ?  I say use plenty of exercise and
be Avilling to be taught  obedience.
  Let the people thoroughly understand that pre-
vention  of disease is actually the best as well as
the only cure.  So long as their efforts are directed
towards  the  cure of  disease, instead  of endeaA'or-
ing to prevent it, as  they should do—just so long
they may be  assured that, instead of less disease
they will have more.
             DISEASE A CRIME.

  After it has become thoroughly understood by
the community at large, that disease is really as
much of a crime  as murder, people will begin to
groAV a little  more careful, and avoid getting sick
as they Avould avoiel the  crime of murder.  And
Avhat, after all, is the real difference bctAveen  a
murderer  and one who destroys health and  life ?
()ne is as  bad as the other, for one destroys life as
much as  the other;  and. both must be made to
suffer a painful death. The  truth  of the matter
is that, upon  the truth my faith is founded, while
at the same time my will is for the advancement
of humanity.
* 
98         ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
   YELLOW FEVER NON-CONTAGIOUS.

      From the Savannah News, November '2, 18*77.

    A  DEPLORABLE  CONDITION  OP  AFFAIRS.


  As announced in our yesterday's issue, the reve-
nue cutter  BoutAvell arrived  from Fernanelina on
Wednesday night at  half-past  nine  o'clock, with
Drs. Martin and  Starbuck, who were  gladly Avel-
comed by  their  host of friends.  We had an in-
teresting interview  with Dr.  Starbuck during the
morning, anel learneel from him the following facts
in reference to the epidemic:
  At present the fever is about over, the material
being  exhausted.  Only  twenty whites Avho  re-
maineel  in  the town  escaped the  sickness.  The
fatality has been very heavy.  There  are  a num-
ber of cases  of  sickness among the negroes yet,
but no serious results are apprehended,   as  the
cases are of a light type and the medical attention
is sufficient for all emergencies.
  According  to the  census taken September 28th,
1877, there was a population of—whites, 518, col-
ored, 1,114 ; total white and colored,  1,632.   From
August 21st to October  31st there  were 94 deaths,
making  a fatality of five and  a half per cent, of
the total  population.  The  death rate  among the
whites was about sixteen  per cent., there being-
only about ten deaths among the colored. 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        99

  The  Avhite population depend exclusively  on
the shipping for a support.  They are all poor, and
have no means or other  business, but are depend-
ent solely  on the proceeds of  their labor  for  a
livelihooel;  anel now, that  there is  no shipping,
they will have  to be fed by the city  for at least  a
month to  come, or  the suffering will be fearful.
The sanitary committee have received but seven-
teen thousand dollars from all  sources, and Avith
this sum  they  have  paid for  medicines, nurses.
funeral expenses anel all the other expenses inci-
dent to an  epidemic  of  yelloAV fever, besides feed-
ing nearly  the  whole population.   On the 30th of
October they had in the treasury one dollar anel a
half, anel were in debt two thousand dollars.
  This sIioavs a deplorable condition of affairs, and
is calculated to excite the liveliest  sympathy of
every community.
  Dr. Blackburn,  of  Kentucky,  Avho rendered ef-
ficient services  when the  epidemic  was  at  its
height, is iioav on a tour through  the West, giving
lectures for the benefit of the sufferers  anel solicit-
ing contributions.
  It is suggested that the State authorities of Flor-
ida should take some  measures for the relief of
these afflicted people, # as the  occasion is one that
requires prompt action.
               ARGUMENT.

For the sake of an argument, alloAv me  to ask 
100       ORIGIN OF YELLOW  FEVER.
the reader  Avhether he has read the  " Deplorable-
Condition of Affairs."  If not, I want him to read
it.
  Now, reader, allow me to  ask you. Is the yel-
low fever contagious ?  If so, how is it that those
twenty persons were not  impregnated with  yellow
fever ?
  I would like to ask, also, AVas the atmosphere
the cause of vellow fever at Fernandina, Florida ?
If it was, why did not these twenty persons take
the elisease ?
  Was it possible for them to inhale a different
kind of atmosphere from that which  was found in
Fernandina at that time ?
  If they did inhale that very atmosphere, why
did they not take the yellow fever ?  AVhat was it
that especially saved" them from that  dreaded
scourge, the vellow  fever?  AVhat could possibly
be the reason that all the others were sick?  AVhat
may be the reason that some  die, while  others are
more or less sick ?
  These questions are asked for the  sake of a fair
and impartial examination,  and that we  may ar-
rive at the truth, as this course is sure to produce
the best of evidence.
  Take it for granted that yellow fever is not con-
tagious, for were  such the case, these twenty  per-
sons  would most certainly have  taken it.   The
fact that  it was  not contagious, gives all  the rea-
son Ave search for  why  they escaped when so
prominently exposed.
   Take it also for granted that yellow  fever does
not exist in the  atmosphere, for, if  this were the
fact, these people would most certainly have in-
haled it, and caught the disease.  The reason why
they escaped was, that no yellow fever was to be 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       101
found  in  the  atmosphere,  and hence  it Avas  not
possible for them to become  affected by it.  The
inference  is too plain for any one to  be "mistaken.
  You may also take it for granted that there is  a
cause  for  the disease  without  doubt, and this
cause  may  readily be traced  to  absolute  filthi-
uess; eating and drinking umvholesome food, and
compelling  the  stomach to receive,  during a hot
summer, more food than it is capable of digesting,
thereby causing a  great amount  of  vital  exhaus-
tion, being constantly covered  with dirty  and
sweaty clothing, and surrounded  by  decaying and
rotten  botlies that  are constantly permeating  the
atmosphere with their disgusting  odors.  Here we
can find the cause why so many  people are more
or  less sick, and  that, too, Avithout our Jooking
any farther for it.
  YelloAV  fever gives us  all the  proof avc need as
to who are obedient to the la\vs of Nature and
who are not.  It shows us who have liveel right, as
Avell as avIio have died Avrong.   Those twentj' per-
sons liveel in strict accordance Avith the laAvs of
health, anel the reason avIiv they were not punished
was because they had done nothing whatever to de-
serve punishment.
THE ATMOSPHERE HAS YELLOAV FEARER
   —A  STEAMER HAS YELLOW  FEVER.

  I would like to ask Iioav a steamer was able to 
 102       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

 bring yelloAV fever to Port Royal.  Did the steam-
 er have the yelloAV feAer, and if so, Iioav is the fact
 to be satisfactorily proved ?
  If tlie steamer really had no yellow fever,  how-
 can  Ave  believe that the  physicians practicing at
 Port Royal ever  asserted that the fever was un-
 doubtedly brought there from  Fernandina by one
 of the New York  steamers, which is in  the habit
 of touching  at that  place.  AVe believe these
 gentlemen to be men of truth and veracity, and
 how can avc then credit them Avith  any such state-
 ment ?
  If  the  steamer  did actually have  the yellow
 fever, Avhat was the cure ?  What was the cause
 or the reason  that the  steamer had  the  yellow
 fever,  while  the people living on board  of  her
 were exempt from it ?
  If yelloAV fever is contagious, as the physicians
 at Port Royal  all assert,  Avhy did not all the  peo-
 ple on boarel that steamer  haAre the yellow fever?
 If the yelloAV fever is in the atmosphere, by what
 process is it transmitted from one place to another ;
 hoAv is it shipped ; how is it done?  I desire proof.
 I have always observed that  the impure atmos-
 phere is  driven out by that which is pure.   The
 pure atmosphere invariably takes the place of that
 which is impure.  I have  also observed that  it is
 the wind or breeze that carries all odors away.
  Take it for granteel that yellow fever is not con-
 tagious.  If it had been contagious those physicians
 Avho  claim to have carefully examined all the char-
 acteristics of the disease, would undoubtedly have
 taken it themselves.  The breezes of heaven carry
aAvay the  disease   much   more  readily  than  a
steamer possibly could do.  Be very sure of that.
If the  disease Avere  really  to be  found in  the at- 
           ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.        103

 mosphere, and  if it  were contagious, no person.
 under these circumstances, would be saved.
   People, open your eyes,  and see; open  your
 ears, and hear !  AVe live  here upon  the earth, but
 Ave know not why, or for what.
   We  do not seem to  understand or comprehend
 this beautiful world in which we live.   AVe see
 Avith our eyes ; we hear with our  ears,  but our
 minds seem dull of comprehension.  AA^e want truth-
 ful and reliable doctrine,  AAre  desire to advance.
 Justice as Avell  as  honesty ought to be  our  only
 policy, and to be obedient to the laAv.
   Let  me advise you.  If you desire health  and
 long life, and wish to live happy, be obedient to the
 laws of health.  Sickness  is the punishment of dis-
 obedience.  Health is the  reward of  obedience.  It
 is of no use for us to live  here in this world with-
 out  knowing  why  all  these facts exist or  why
 they do  not.  I am an investigator.  I want to
 knoAV why and  wherefore.   If anything  appears
 crooked to  me, I immediately search after some
method, by means  of Avhich everything may be
straightened and made all right again.  I mean no
harm.   No! I labor for the happiness of humani-
ty, and I desire  all  around me to assist  me in mv
labors.
           Respectfully,
                    August Buesing, Author. 
104       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
   From the St. Augustine " Florida Prc.«," Oct. 2u, 1877.

 Y.N  ACCOUNT  OF  THE  YELLOW  FEA EK
  IN THE  UNITED  STATES,  FROM  160:
  TO 1820.

  The first appearance  of  yellow  fever  in the
United States was 1693, at Boston, introduced by
a government vessel from the AVest Indies.
  It next appeared at  Philadelphia, and  Charles-
ton, S. C, 1699,  brought by vessels from Barba-
does, AVest Indies.
  In 1702-it appeared in Noav York, brought from
St. Thomas in a bale of  cotton..   Five hundred out
of a population of 8,000 died.   It again appeal eel
in Ncav  York, 1745 ; also  in Philadelphia, 1741,
being introduced by means of a  trunk  of wearing
apparel,  belonging to a gentleman who had died
of the fever at Barbadoes.
  In 1762 in again broke out. in Philadelphia, be-
ing introduced by friends from  on boarel vessels
from the West Indies.
  In  1791  it  again appeared in Ncav  York.  In
1793, in Charleston and Philadelphia,  where, out
■of a population of 40,000, four thousanel died and
over  tAvelve thousanel  fleel  from the city.    The
city at the time  was in an  extremely filthy condi-
tion.  The fever in this case, as  in the  others, Ava^
introeluceel by vessels  from St.  Domingo, and no 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       1()5

 attempt at a quarantine ;  vessels came directly up
 to  the docks and  freely landed passengers and
 merchandise.
   In  1797. the fever broke out  in  Providence, R.
 I.; also appeared again in  Philadelphia.
   About that time it made its appearance at Bal-
 timore, having also  first appeared there in 1794,
 having been brought from Philadelphia.
   In  179S  the fever broke out in Boston.   It ex-
 tended to many of the larger cities and toAvns  in
 Ncav  England.  Same year it reappeared in New
 York ;  over two  thousand persons died Avith  it
 July  to  October.  It also broke out in  Philadel-
 phia,  and over thirty-five  hundred deaths betAveen
 the first of August  and  the  first  of  November;
 brought from the AA'est  Indies  by the ship Deb-
 orrah.
   Two points are  Avorthy  of note in connection
 with  this epidemic; one,  that the authorities of
 Philadelphia had become  frightened at the yearly
 appearance of the disease, and had placed the city
 in excellent healthy sanitary condition, compareel to
 what  it had been  previously, by a careful and vig-
 ilant  system of police, and  yet  entirely neglected
 quaratine measures;  anel the other that the au-
 thorities of Baltimore  established a  quarantine,
 not only against vessels  coming from the  AVest
 Indies, but also against persons and baggage from
 Philadelphia, and entirely escaped the  elisease.
  The next year there Avas a mild epidemic, which
 was traced to importations  from the AVest Indies.
  In 1800 it visited  Providence, R. I., anel Balti-
more ; also in  Ncav Bedford, Mass., where a vessel
arrived from Demarara Avith  the fe\"er on board.
Avith also a large quantity of elamaged coffee.
  In  1803,  1804  and  1805, it again appeared in 
106       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
Philadelphia, but  did not rage.  After this  the
disease entirely disappeared from Philadelphia un-
til 1819.
  There Avas more or less of the fever in 1802 and
1805 in Baltimore, Boston,  Alexandria,  Ara., New-
Haven, Ct., and Providence, R. I.
  In 1803 the fever appeared in Boston, and some
five or six hundred deaths  occurred.  It Avas car-
ried to the town of Catskill, on the Hudson river,.
Avhere a  number  died  of  it.   The next year it
appeared in NeAV  York; about 350 deaths from
this time  to  1822.  In  1809,  however, the fever
appeared in Brooklyn, N. Y., and suffered to some
extent.  This Avas traced to the ship  Concordia,
from Havana.
  In 1811  a similar outbreak occurred at Perth
Amboy, brought  there by  vessels  from the AVest
Indies.
  In 1819, there Avas a good deal of fever at quar-
antine, New York.   Cases occurred at their  old
haunts, in the vicinity of Old and Coenties Slips,
but there  Avas nothing approaching an epidemic,
there being less than one hundred cases  in all.
■  In 1820,  fever appeared  at Middletown,  Ct., in-
troduced by a sloop from New York.
  In 1821, it prevailed as an epidemic in Philadel-
phia, brought by  infected ships from St. Jago ele
Cuba, but soon  its spread was arrested by sanitary
measures.   About eighty-five deaths in all.
  After this  the authorities of Philadelphia be-
came  fully awakened to the importance of meas-
ures to  prevent the  introduction  of the  disease,
and devised a  rigid  quarantine law,  as well as
local sanitary measures.  The result Avas the city
enjoyed an  immunity from the disease until 1853
—a period of  33 years ;  then the disease reap- 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        107
peared from the want of a vigilant quarantine, be-
ing clearly due to importation from Cuba.
                THE AUTHOR

Asks why, if yellow fever is contagious,  that  all
are not taken sick ? Some die, some get better and
some never get sick after  all.'  Let me tell you,
kind  reader,  those avIio have  led  an  extremely
filthy  life,   contrary  to  the  laws  of  health,
contrary  to  the  laAvs  of   nature,   are,  in
this manner,  punished for their disobedience.  I
am fully aware that, as  a general  thing,  sinners
\o\e to charge  all the  sins that they  have ever
committed to  the  agency  of  the devil,  to  some
steamer, some other person or some bale of cotton
full  of contagion,  but  Avill these excuses  avail
them?
  So in a case of yelloAV  fever.   The patient is ever
ready  to  blame some person besides himself  for
his disease, but, in  reality,  he  alone  is to blame,
and this he  ought  to be fully  aware of,  as  he is
the one who has to suffer.  Those people he may
choose to  blame never enelure  the penalties that
attach only to the perpetrator—for that would be
unreasonable. It ie> the perpetrator alone who must
in his  own proper  person, be  made to suffer  for
the faults which he alone has committed.
  It is really laughable to be  gravely  informed
that yellow fever can be transmitted by a steamer 
K>8       ORIGIN OF VELLOW FEVER.
or through  the  agency of a bale  of cotton.  It
woulel be just as sensible to assert that a drunken
man could enter a city, and by the  disgusting
odors emanating from  his  filthy  person,  make
every soul in  that city  drunk ?  That kind  of an
argument will hardly answer among men of  sense
anel  discretion.   Such  excuses  will not  ansAver.
We all know Avhat it takes to make a man drunk
as Avell  as Ave  know what  produces yellow  fever.
A steamer or a  bale of cotton can no mori> be
blamed  for your being sick with yelloAV fever than
you can blame that drunken man for your own intoxi-
cation.  You could not  attach blame to  a steamer
because  you avc re proved to be a murderer, could
you? Every man is  to blame,  must be held re-
sponsible, anel must be  made to suffer for his own
individual misdeeds.   lie  must accept the punish-
ment the moment he commits crime.
  It is just as nonsensical and absurd  for a  man
to believe that a steamer or a bale of cotton can
produce a yellow fever  patient, as it would be for
him to assert that one drunken man  in a city must
prove the direct cause of every other man's drunk-
enness ?
  If this is admitteel to be impossible, as it really
is, then  a man who has partaken of intoxicating
liquors  cannot become  drunk any  sooner than a
person Avhose system is entirely free from all im-
purities  can become a yellow fever  patient.   And
by the same methoel of reasoning, a person could
not well become a  yellow fever  patient, because
there might be a hundred  persons in the city, suf-
fering from the effects  of the disease, any  more
than a man would be sure to  be intoxicated just be-
cause there might be  in the city from   two to  a 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       100

thousand  drunken men.   It is  absurd to ask any
man to believe in impossibilities.
  It is equally as absurd for men to  believe that
an  impure atmosphere coulel  be in any  manner
brought  to  us  on a steamer or by a person who
happens  to come from a city  where yelloAV fever
exists,  lie may just as  Avell be asked  to believe
that one  or one hundreel  men Avho  came direct
from a liquor shop, or Avho had passed by a place
where liquor was  sold,  Avere  able to  bring Avith
them enough  of the effluvia  of liquor  to  make
everybody drunk  Avith Avhom  they come  in con-
tact.  If this  is admitted  to be impossible, as it
really is, then why not frankly admit that a steam-
er or an  individual,  who comes from an infected
city, can no more make a person sick than the man
who comes  direct from  a liquor  shop  can make
anybody drunk.
  It is  absurd to imagine that  any  person can
take  the  yellow fever from  inhaling  the  atmos-
phere of a city where yellow  fever  exists, fully
as  absurd as "it would  be to entertain the belief
that a man  must necessarily get  drunk from  in-
haling the odor of liquors  brought from a liquor
shop.  It is the liquor a man has drank that  has
made him drunk, not that which  he  has inhaled,
looked  at a held in his  hand.   It is the depraved
conduct and the extreme filthy surroundings and
the vile character of the food that a man eats and
drinks, that produces sickness—not anything that
he  has looked upon and seen.
  If it Avere possible for  a  man to become a thief
by  inhaling  the breath  of a thief, or by simply
gazing upon him, then I might believe that similar
circumstances might produce vcIIoav fever; but 1 
110       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

certainly Avill  not believe anything  which is im-
possible.  I desire proof for everything.
  If it were  a possible thing  for a man to  get
drunk while passing by a liquor shop, I might be in-
duced  to believe that a steamer coming from a
place where yelloAV fever  existeel, coulel bring the
disease Avith it.  But  it so happens  that  the  man
Avho passes by a liquor shop does not get drunk,
nor  does the  yelloAV  fever arise from  the atmos-
phere of a  city—a sure proof  that the disease is
not contagious.
  No more truth can be found in the  statement,
that a steamer  coming from the AVest Indies Avas
the  cause  of yellow  fever in  Boston  in the  year
1693, than  there is in  the tale that one man is the
cause of another man being drunk.   If you are
able to believe one statement, A\hy not believe the
other ?
                CONFESSION.

  There  is but one way for a man to become  a
drunkard, anel besieles this there is no  other way.
There is but one  way for a man to become sick,
and besides this  there is no  other  Avay.   There is
but one way of doing right,  but there"  are several
Avays of doing Avrong.   There is but  one Avay to
avoid sickness and drunkenness.  There is but'one
Avay to be  honest, but there are several  Avays in
Avhich a person can be dishonest.  There is but one 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       HI
way to become a saint, but there are several ways
to become a sinner.
  There is but one way to avoid yelloAV fever, and
besides this there is no other way.
  In order for men to be sober, they must avoid
drinking  intoxicating  liquors.   In  order for  men
to enjoy good health, they must live in accordance
with the laAvs of health.   In order for men to do
right they  must  avoid injuring  themselves or
-others.
  I might allude to many similar points  that furn-
ish food for thought,  but I  shall write  at length
npon all of these topics at some future day.
  You  cannot benefit truth,  but  the truth  can
benefit  you.  and  make  you free and happy. It
can and  will introduce  you into a state of har-
mony, happiness and everlasting glory.
          CONCLUDING R EM ARKS.

  Reader,  let me tell you once and forever, it is
-a disgrace  to  any  man to be in the penitentiary
for violating the laAvs of the land, and it is equally
as elisgracefui  for any person to  lie in bed sick for
violating the laAvs of health.  The penitentiary is
the legitimate punishment of those Avho choose to
violate the laAvs  of the land, and sickness  is  the
punishment provideel for those avIio dare to violate
the laws of health. One is a elisobedience of law as
much as the  other;  both  are criminal, and those 
112        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
Avho offend must  quietly endure such penalties as
thev have accepted or chosen by the  performance
of the acts of which they have been guilty.
  If you desire perfect health and liberty, be obe-
dient" to the laws laid doAvn for your guidance.
You may not like my bold  talk, but I care very
little Avhether you do <>r not.  T am bound  to speak
and write plainly, and place  truth before  you as it
really exists, anel as I  have every reason to believe
it  after long years of patient investigation, and
this I shall elo as long as I can keep my eyes open.
Do not expect any other course from me, as it Avill
be useless for you to elo so.
  Those Avho a"re blessed  Avith wealth  should pur-
chase several copies  of the Avork, and place it in
the hands of those unable to  purchase, and by this
means accomplish a great amount of good.
              CONTRIBUTIONS.

  The author of this book regrets very much that
his means were so limiteel as not to allow him to
publish more than one-third of what he had Avrit-
ten for  the first volume, but he is in  hopes that,
by the help of his  friends,  they taking the same
vieAVs in the  present instance  as  the  author, the
second edition must come out.  Should they do so,
and feel like sending in contributions in order to
help elefray the immense expenses of the work,
any small amount will be thankfully  received by 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER,       11$
the author, and  those  who  feel like subscribing
for  the   second  edition, should  send in their
names  and money, and thus  help the work along.
I expect that every reaeler in the country will  do
his duty at once, and help to extend the circulation
"f this valuable work.
      I am, your most obedient servant,
                    Auorst Buesixg, Author..
    HISTORY OF THE AUTHORS  LIFE.

  A sketch of all public men is something that the
reading community  invariably looks for and ex-
pects, anel a mere glance at the previous history of
Mr. Buesing will, of course,  prove interesting to
all familiar with his Avritings :
  August Buesing  A\ras  born in the year 1S44 at
Celie Hannover, in Germany,  and is now, it will be
seen, thirty-three years  of age.   It is saiel that
from mere childhood the  study of the cause, prog-
ress and cure of disease has been with him a perfect
passion.  Eagerly he perused every book treating
upon medicine and surgery that he could obtain ac-
cess to, and their perusal induced him, at the age
of fourteen, to become apprenticed to a barber-
surgeon—the two callings being  inseparably con-
necteel in the land of his nativity.  For five years
lie followed this profession continuously, spending
nearly  all of his leisure time in  the peaceful pur- 
Ill       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
 sails of agriculture anel horticulture, with both of
 which he soon became Aery familial'.
   He Avas, at this  time of his life,  poor in purse,
 but wealthy, indeed, in an  indomitable energy in
 the pursuit of learning, that kneAV  no such word
 as  u fail."  Hence  he  Avas a persistent student,
 pcring hour after hour  over the midnight lamp in
 his mcelical pursuits,  until he had laiel the founda-
 ticn for a life of  practical usefulness.
   It avus not  long before he visiteel the  beautiful
 city  of Hamburg,  where he  soon  obtained  the
 position of hospital stewarel; and there, surrounded
 by upwards of ten  thousand patients,  he received
 a, practical knowledge of the various  forms of dis-
 ease—such as but  few are  permitted  to  enjoy.
 His previous  education admirably fitted him for
 the position he occupied, and soon his talents, abili-
 ty >\nd skill secured him the warm, personal friend-
 ship of the leading  medical  men of Hamburg.
  observation and  continuous reaeling  determined
 hun to emigrate to  America, firmly  believing that
 in ihis land of civil anel  religious freedom he could
 win both Avealth and reputation.   His  surmises
 have proved correct. He has secured both ; anel for
 year> lias been a permanent resident of the beautiful
 state of Florida, a  close and attentive student,
 who  has let  nothing of  importance escape  him.
 The dread disease  of yellow fever he has  ana-
 lysed thoroughly, to the astonishment of the medi-
 cal faculty,  avIio  view  in this close analysis  the
 triumphs of a  master  mind, Avhich labors  in the
 gi« at cause of humanity.
  The folloAving paragraphs I quote from the  Ihin-
nn- of Light, published  in Boston, Mass. : 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       115 *-'
AN   EARNEST   APPEAL  FOR  MEDICAL
                  FREEDOM.

  [The  folloAving  comprehensive, convincing and
eloquent protest  against  tyrannical legislation is
aeldressed by its author—a gentleman  well known
in literary circles—to the  members of all  State
legislatures before whom the "Doctors'Plot" law,
" to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery"
may be  brought  for  consideration.   AA^e regret
that he  withholds his name,  which  would add
great weight to his protest.  That he is thoroughly
familiar Avith the subject handled, and has viewe'd
it in every aspect,  the reader will readily perceive.
  He is laboring to benefit mankind in  a different
way,  but,  as a wise and sincere philanthropist, he
felt alarmed at the possibility of unjust legislation,
and rose from the  bed of an invalid to Avrite this
vigorous appeal, Avhich he nearly completed before
he gave rest to his  pen,  and as  soon as possible
placed it in the hands of his friends to be useel as
they deemed best.—Ed. B. of L.]
  State Legislators :  You are invoked, in the name
of science anel humanity, to roll back the tide of
progress two  hundred  years, and  re-establish the
barbarisms which  disgraced  our colonial'history !
  Freedom of opinion, freedom of conscience and
freedom of action are as  sacred in one intellectual
sphere as another.  The  freedom  of benevolence
is as sacred as the  freedom of religion, and the
two are inseparably connected. 
116       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
  Every arbitrary government is besought, in the
name of religion and  the  public welfare, to put
down, by penal laws,  the spread of heresy in  re-
ligion, anel to  protect the emoluments of  a  "regu-
lar " priesthood against the  rivalry of irregular
non-conformist teachers of ne\v forms of  religion,
and  every arbitrary government responds to the
demand.
  Our  own  ancestors  were deluded by  this cry
proceeding from an  honored  hierarchy, and our
early history is  black with the  record  of intoler-
ance and  persecution.   AVe have outgrown that
form of tyranny, and although a few would glad-
ly revive it,  an overwhelming majority now pro-
hibits such legislation.
  But the spirit of intolerance still  survives, and
is ever  ready to take charge of the  public wel-
fare, animated by the  same desire  to protect the
emoluments  of  the priesthood  of scientific  theo-
ries, Avhich impelled the  priesthood of theological
dogmas in their proscriptive  legislation—ostensi-
bly for certain theories, really for personal  profit,
the motive is ever the same—to promote the  pe-
cuniary interests of a class  against  whom the
public intelligence has rebelled, and Avho, unable
to maintain themselves in fair  competition against
new ieleas, invoke the  poAver  of the law  to edieck
the spread  of novel  opinions or eliscoveries,  by
punishing all who dare to teach and act upon the-
glowing fresh truths  that are developed  every
year, every day,  and every  hour  in the emanci-
pated intellect of the nineteenth century.
  The pretense that the public welfare is interested
in maintaining the exclusive authority of a regu-
larly infallible medical combination, is  precisely 
ORIGIN OF YELLOAV FEVER.       \\*J
the same pretext which demands legal protection
for any particular system of religious belief.
  The  pretext in either  case  is an insult to  the
intelligence of the people—an  insult  to  your in-
telligence  as  legislators.  You are  impudently
asked  to place yourselves  anel your constituents
under  the  guardianship  of a  gigantic  medical
clique,  or  Trades-Union combination, Avho  (for
their oavh  profit, of course,)  will  do your think-
ing, and tell you  whom  you shall  and whom you
shall not employ to assist you in the  recovery of
health Avhen assaileel  by disease.
  Do you need their guardianship ?  Are you and
your constituents incapable of judging for  your-
selves  who is most successful in practice and most
agreeable in the chamber of  the invalid  ?  If so
let  us  surrender the Avhole theory and  practice
of  Republican  government,  anel  surrender  to
every  Trades-Union  combination in the  country
the right and  power to  tell us Avhom  we shall
patroni/.c,  which, of course, will be one of their
own consolidated clique.
  There is  far more  reason  for applying this prin-
ciple to the mechanical  arts, and thus protecting
the public  (apparently)  against cheap and flimsy
goods,  wares  and merchandise, by establishing
rich and respectable monopolies and breaking up.
the poor straggling mechanics,  than for applying
such a principle  to  the  medical craft, which is
the  most  gigantic  Trades-Union  combination
which  now oppresses society  Avith its baleful or-
ganization.
  That the  portion  of the  medical profession
Avhich   calls itself " regular,"  is nothing more in
its social relations than the  gigantic Trades-Union
combination for pecuniary objects, hostile to  the 
118       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
Avelfare of the society and incalculably deleterious
in its influence  on its members  and on the pub-
lic mind,  is a  proposition which I affirm from  a
most intimate and  thorough  knoAvIedge  of its
truth,  based on  the  observations  of  a  lifetime
already long, in  the  course  of which I  have had
every opportunity as a physician, anel  as a medi-
cal professor ^ familiarly  acquainted Avith  all  par-
ties in a confused and discorelant  profession, to be
cognizant of their secret animus, and profoundly
disgusted Avith  their professional discords,  their
infidelity  to truth and their disregard of the pub-
lic welfare.
  Traeles-Unionism is the true  character  of the
American medical association, and of every "regu-
lar" old-school state  and  county society.  They
are not combinations to advance meelical science, for
no  one who happens to have mastered methods
of practice unknown to the Association essentially
different from their methods, could bring any dis-
covery or demonstration before them Avithout be-
ing insulted or rejected without  a hearing.  They
laugh at  demonstration, either before committees
or in hospitals  or at the bedside, and  ridicule the
statistics which they  will not seek.   But they are
unanimous with  a hungry zeal in driving all men
and Avomen out of the  field  of legislation  or per-
sonal  hostility  who  elo  not  belong  to  their
clique.  And these demoralizing principles are per-
petuated  in the profession by  the action of their
schools, re-enforced by the natural depravity  and
selfishness of mankind.  To  legislate  in favor of
this  huge clique would be as injurious and de-
moralizing as to  legislate to  promote  the estab-
lishment of religious  corporations to  hold whole
counties in mortmain. 
            ORIGIN OF YEI.LOW FEVER.        1"9

   Not that physicians or professors, as a class, are
 more  selfish  La' nature than  other men,  for they
 are, strictly speaking, not selections of  the fittest.
 but simply average specimens of our  population,
 as any one maA* observe who  inspects  a medical
 class.   I have known many  liberal-minded physi-
 cians, but as a class of men, " regular" physicians
 (whatever  their personal  character before  they
 enter  a  medical college), are precisely  like the
 members of any ministerial order who, after pass-
 ing through theological  universities, are nearly all
 stamped with the same mark, all filled  Avith the
 same  bigotry, animated by  the  same  esprit  J>r.
 •■orps. convinced of the infallibility of their pro-
 fession, utterly impregnable to  any argument, and
 utterly  contemptuous toAvarel  any  fact  which  is
 not in harmony Avith their orthodoxy. The deadly
 power of an immense  organization is  so  great,
 that feAV medical students are able to resist it. even
 if they had the Avill.
   The "regular"  medical schools of America in-
 herit their ethics and  philosophy from the ante-
 revolutionary period of British colleges of medi-
 cine, and take a pride in the  fact that they  ha\e
 never  been, in the  slightest degree, Americanized.
 but have preserved, with "regular" fidelity, their
 intimate  sympathy with their  European  contem-
 poraries  and predecessors,  bowing  Avith orthodox
 devotion  before every discovery, and every sciol-
 ism too,  emanating from London and Paris, while
 they turn a colel  shoulder to progress and discov-
 ery in  their OAvn country, unless it emanates from
 the highest ranks of the  'regular"  medical avis
toeracy.
   [f the  "regular"1 medical  profession  had been 
120        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
 an honorably  patriotic and  benevolent organiza-
 tion, if it hael always punished or disgraced quack-
 ery in its oavu  ranks, if it  hael always sought  the
 truth from every source, welcomed every new  dis-
 covery,  anel kept  itself in advance of the public
 intelligence, or even kept up  Avith the enlightened
 public  opinion, it  might  have some claims to be
 recognized  not as  the monopolist of the healing
 art, (for that is a  position which  no honest  Re-
 publican  government can  give  to  any  class  of
 men), but as a trustworthy adviser in reference to
 any medical legislation not affecting its oavu pe-
 cuniary interests.
   But none  of these suppositions are  true.  The
 organization is not patriotic  or benevolent in its
 professional  action as an  organized body,  and it
 cares nothing  Avhatever  for quackery  in its  own
 ranks ;  it is intensely opposed to all rapiel progress
 in the healing art;  it is bitterly hostile to all prac-
 titioners and all systems of practice which sIioaa',
 by fair statistics, any better results than the "reg-
 ular "  Trades-Union  clique, and the authenticity
 of  such  cures or  statistics only intensifies  the
 jealousy  and  hatred  with  which  they  are  re-
 garded.
   As a bigoted minister avouUI turn aside Avith con-
 tempt from  a  picture of  social harmony,  intelli-
 gence,  prosperity  anel virtue under the auspices
 of  another church, anel  elenounce  it as a scene of
 heresy odious  to God  and fitting the community
 for eternal damnation, so does the intensely "reg-
 ular" meelical  bigot  turn aside with disgust and
 ^corn  from the spectacle of the  successful treat-
 ment of epidemics by practitioners  avIio  elo   not
 wear the  "regular" collar, and carefully avoiel  see-
ing the  patients,  or inquiring in  their successful 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        121

 restoration; still  more fiercely does he assail the
 stati>tics of new systems of  medicine, as creedists
 assail the records of impartial history, while Avith
 inquisitive jealousy he seeks to know if  any broth-
 er of his clique  adopts the successful remedies  of
 the new school,  or  consults  at the bedside with
 men  who  are more successful  than  himself  in
 practice, and  thereby learns to do his duty to his
 patients.  These are the  unpardonable  offences  of
 "regular" bigotry.   To  take one step in advance
 of his colleagues  of the medical Trades-Union—
 to exhibit gentlemanly  or Christian  courtesy to-
 Avards professional rivals Avho are  more successful
 or better taught than himself—-are unpardonable
 offences.
  He Avho thinks  his duty to his patients para-
 mount  over  his  duty   to  the Medical Trades-
 Union,  and Avho is  willing to save their lives by
 any System not knoAvn to"the college in Avhich he
 Avas  taught and the clique in Avhich he moves,  is
 a  dishonored criminal  in the  eyes of the Trades-
 Union,  anel his expulsion is  sure Avhen complaint
 is made.
  But if he adheres faithfully to  his clique,  and
 allows forty-five out of fifty patients  to die of an
 epidemic—while  some  independent  practitioner,
 his  next neighbor,  cures forty-five out of fifty—
 and takes care to adhere to his own  deadly  sys-
 tem and sneer at the success of methods of which
 he knows nothing,  anel  Avill  not learn  anything,
 he is  in  good  odor Avith his society, and is eagerly
 clamorous  for  medical  legislation  to  protect  him
 in his eleaelly  practice against an intelligent com-
 petition  which has  Avon the  public favor in spite
of the loud  outcry  of his clique against " quack-
ery,"  Avhich the  intelligent   community regard 
122       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

precisely as they  elo the priest's  outcry against
heresy.
  This " quackery " of one generation  is the >ci-
ence of the next,  for all the power  of a clique
cannot, in this  country,  resist the  force of public
opinion  Avhich  propels  the profession, in spite of
its steady  resistance  and loud outcries.   The  lan-
cet once  reigned in all  the schools with the au-
thority  of  the  sceptre of Jove, but medical inde-
pendents eif every  class made Avar upon it, while
they Avere  denounced as quacks for the innova-
tion, and they  have driven this barbarous  scio-
lism so thoroughly beyond  the pale of profession-
al respectability,"that the  learned head  of  anti-
quated medical" orthodoxy, Prof. Gross, of Phila-
delphia, bemoaned its fate at a late National Med-
ical Association, and spoke  of bleeding  as one of
the " lost arts,"  Avhich  physicians  dare  not re-
vive, anel could not if they  would.
  AArould this grand scientific revolution  have been
effected  if  eAery  state in our Union had armed
the champions  of  the  lancet  with power to  fine
and imprison their professional rivals?
  Another  great revolution has  been effected in
the introduction of  anesthesia,  against  bigoted
opposition.   The performance  of painful surgical
operations  at Paris anel in London  by eminent
surgeons, while the  patients were  made uncon-
scious by  mesmerism, Avould  have been sufficient
in a truly benevolent profession  to  have intro-
duced mesmeric anesthesia  in every  hospital  anel
in every village in  the  civilized Avorld.   The au-
thority of Elliotson of London, and of Cloquet of
Paris, should have been  sufficient, even  without
the brilliant  experience  of Dr.  Esdaile,  who, in
reporting hundreds of cases of mesmeric practice
4 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       123
offered  to  show  the " superiority of mesmerism
over all  drugs Avhatever  as a  means of inducing
insensibility to pain."
  All this triumphant  success, heraleleel as it Avas
in the pages of the Zoist at London, only inflamed
the hostility of the  Trades-Union.   Elliotson Avas
overpoAvered  by professional  hostility, and mes-
merism, the  safest and  most pleasant of all re-
medial  agencies, has been kept down in practice
by  the organized hostility  of the medical  Trades-
Union, which extends through all civilized nations.
  Millions have  died  who might  have been  re-
lieved by this genial agency, and thousands have
suffered the  exquisite tortures of  the surgeon's
knife,  who  might  ha\Te been saved from pain by
mesmerism,  but " regular" bigotry  forbade  it,
anel noAV this  organized  bigotry  comes before the
Legislatures  of the land and asks  the  representa-
tives of a free people to  become particeps crimi-
nis in  this great  crime  against  humanity,  by
arming the  bigots  Avith  legal power to crush
the men and women  aa'Iio have been  struggling
so many years to humanize and liberalize the heal-
ing art.
  It is true that anesthesia, not by  by mesmerism,
Avhich  is  always  safe, but by deadly narcotic
drugs, which  are  always  dangerous, has,  at last,
triumphed over professional hostility, and estab-
lished  itself  everywhere.  But he who first dis-
covered  and  introduced  it, Dr.  Horace  AVells,
Avas baffled  by  professional bigotry  in  Boston,
and driven off in dishonor to end  his life  by sui-
cide.
  Shall we legislate for the  protection  of  the dis-
coverer, the benefactor  of society,  or for the pro-
tection of the bigot against competition, that he 
 124       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

 mav  more successfully trample on the honor and
 the*life of  a Wells or a Mesmer, and drive from
 their honored positions such men as Elliotson and
 Esdaile ?
  Shall avc legislate to  strengthen  the medical
 olio-archy which  resists  the demands of  an  en-
 lightened public  opinion, or leave " the race to
 the swift and the  battle to the strong,"  that geni-
 us and benevolence may secure their just reAvards
 from the public,  and  the physician Avho advances
 beyond his fellows may  be rewarded by  public
 patronage,  instead  of  being   crushed  by   a
 merciless  clique,  like  that Avhich persecuted Har-
 vey anel that which broke down Elliotson.
  Such has been the  influence of this medical com-
 bination, that feAV of the present  generation have
 any ielea of the immense  remeelial  poAver of mes-
 merism, the  greatest addition  to our healing re-
 sources in  the  present century.  Mesmerism was
 made unfashionable, and even the learneel Agassiz
 Avas ashameel to mention the fact that he himself
 Avas a  good mesmeric subject, and had been thor-
 oughly mesmerized by the  Reverend C. H.  Town-
 send, as A\ras  described in Agassiz's letter at the
time it occurred.
  It is in your poAver as legislators to assist  in the
 progress of true  science,  or to  help the triumph
of quackery.   But which is science and which is
quackery ?  AVas it  Harvey standing alone and
ridiculed as a humbug, or the Trades-Union com-
bination, which stood in firm  array against him ?
AVas  it Mesmer and Elliotson,  or the legion  of
selfish pretenders Avho stood  in battle array in
every college and hospital with the  same tumultu-
ous gabble of quackery as in the days of Harvey ?
 Was it Horace A\rells, or the Boston doctors Avho 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        125

discredited  and  broke  him doAvn ?     Was  it
Hahneman, who added a grand and Avonderful dis-
covery  to  the healing  art  which has established
itself in every  civilized  nation,  although  the
Trades-Union  has everywhere invoked the power
of government to arrest its progress, or Avas it the
medical mob Avhich yelled out quack! quack !  and
hunted  eloAvn  every man Avho adopted  the  neAV
doctrine, while studiously remaining ignorant,  and
teaching their pupils to continue  ignorant of the
neAV system, declaring in the face  of overwhelm-
ing statistics  (like Oliver AA^endell Holmes)  " I
ignore it all" ?  Would they ha\*e dared to ignore
any development of science and boast of their
ignorance if they had not felt themselves sustained
in their grand conspiracy against truth by the  arm
of  legislative power, which they noAV  hiAoke
against  rivals,  most of Avhom have few of the ad-
vantages they enjoy, and are compelled, like DaA-
id,  to rely upon a sling  and the  favor Avhich Di-
vine Providence may extend to the cause of right-
eousness and benevolence.
  Which is quackery?   AVas it poor  Galileo, or
was it  the University of Padua,  backed by  the
entire  Catholic Church ?  The question  is  the
same to-day—is it the poor but enlightened one, or
the powerful  many, Avho are organized  in a solid
body to resist  improvement ?
  All great  and valuable discoveries are at  first
poor orphan foundlings.  The temple of  science is
a elen of money-changers, and its  gates are closed
against them.   They may starve,  freeze,  or perish
in darkness, but  Regularism has  no compassion.
It is  the  outsiders  Avho  do not enter  amid  the
learned  mob  that take up anel nurse these found- 
126        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

lings  of science and philosophy,  until they have
grown powerful  enough  to  assert  their rights.
  In every  age the best ideas, the greatest  im-
provement wander  in  the  outer elarkness  while
the high priests close the doors against them, and
outside heretics nurse them.
  As  it Avas with Blasco  ele  Garav, Solomon de
Caus, anel John Fitch in the development of steam
navigation, so has it ever been in  the development
of medical science—the bold pioneer is the sufferer.
  The arbitrary and pampered authorities of a too-
Avell-disciplineel profession have no sympathy with
progress.  As Avas Avell  said  by  the famous  Dr.
James Johnson of the Medico-Chirurgical Review,
" there is a halo of prejudice and pride surround-
ing every corporation,  and especially the College
of Physicians,  which completely  elistorts the   vi-
sion  of those Avithin that  halo," anel hence they
ignore all brilliance but their OAvn.   A man Avho,
like the famous Dr.  Thomas Young, can  look into
Nature beyond the penetration of a  Royal Society,
may meet the  fate  of  Young in  having his ideas
ignored until they  are re-discovered  in  another
generation.
   At the present time,  as throughout this century,
the best ideas in practical and  philosophical medi-
cine  are the  outside orphans  nursed by the out-
side  Independents,  bravely resisting the Trades-
Union power (assisted by special  legislation and
the influence of fashion),  Avhich  are growing  anel
strengthening for the  coming time in which they
shall  vanquish the enormous quackeries of Regil-
larism.
   I would mention as one orphan  which has grown
up, the rational restorative treatment of consump-
tion  which,  in my younger days,  Avas invariably 
            ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       127

 fatal—death being always accelerated by the legal
 .ind regular  quackery of bleeding, tartar emetic,
 Ioav  diet  and  confinement.   The . first  medical
 writer who taught the restorative treatment lost
 caste with his profession for speaking of the cura-
 bility of consumption, and his memory has faded
 out, but the restorative  treatment is' to-day  the
 recognized system.
   There are three live and vigorous orphans at
 this time nourished and supported by the Indepen-
 dents, which will soon be able to  break doAvn  the
 doors that are  barred against them.
   I refer  to pneumatic treatment, electric treat-
 ment and cancer  treatment,  AVithhold your spe-
 cial legislation, and  you  will soon see them  tri-
 umph.   As  hydropathy, nursed  by the German
 peasant,  Preissnitz,   has   triumphed   over   the
 Trades-Union  in both  continents, so  Avill these
 three grand improvements, ignored and neglected
 except by the Independents, assert their rank and
 power.
  Does one physician in a  thousand, of  the regu-
 lar Trades-Union,  understand the application"of
 electricity ?  Docs one in five thousand know any-
 thing of the  poAA'er of pneumatic treatment, which
 like electricity, has elemonstrated its A'alue in near-
 ly all possible forms of elisease.
  Does one of fifty thousand of the Trades-Union
 knoAV  Iioav to  cure a cancer ?   If he  docs, it is
 sufficient evidence at  headquarters that  he should
 be  styled a  quack, for  he knoAvs more than  his
 professors !   We have seen a member of the fami-
 fy of the Hon. David A. Wells slowly dving  of
this  terrible disease, the  leaders of the medical
profession considering it  impossible to  afford  re-
lief ; and yet there are perhaps  fiA*e hundred edu- 
128        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

cated physicians in  this land  Avho  knoAV how to
treat  it successfully, but not one of them Avears
the collar  Avhiuh is marked " regular," and  there
are at least a  score of  very limited  education,
Avho yet know Iioav  to cure  cancers, though they
do not understand  how to Avrite the English lan-
guage.
  I "have  not named  one-tAventieth  part of  the
remedial measures, neAV medicines and medical dis-
coveries, Avhich all over this country are being pre-
pared to  bless humanity and supersede  existing
quackeries.   The Eclectics  have thirty  or forty
invaluable remedies, of  which the regular colleges
have knoAvn little or nothing, and more than thirty
or forty successful  methods  of  treating  disease,
unknoAvn to the  old-school professors.   The whole
materia medico.  of homeopathy is unknown to  the
old school, anel is practically more  extensive than      4
theirs, requiring a much longer study.   The hobby
(though not avoAved)  of these fossilized  skeptics
is the limitation  of  knowledge—the  reduction of
Nature's boundless resources to a convenient hand-
ful  for  a  routine doctor, as  Sir Ashley  Cooper
boasted that he could  practice  medicine success-
fully with  half-a-dozen  remedies.  But the hobby
of the Independents is the increase  of  knowledge
—the enlargement of our  resources ;  hence  the
great majority  of our valuable resources consists
of articles  which the olel  school has either pro-
scribed  or neglected ; every " regular "   medical
college being a den of professional ignorance, proud
of its anatomy, chemistry anel pathology, but ut-
terly poverty-stricken in its healing resources, and,
consequently, skeptical as to the possibility of any
L^reat success in o\ercoming  disease.
  As poverty is jealous of  Avealth, so these meagre 
            ORIGIN OF YELLOW FETER.        129

 schools of medicine are bitterly jealous and hos-
 tile against competitors of ampler resources.  A
 robust medical  professor in a  AArestern medical
 college declared, in a public lecture, that he and
 his medical party  thought that all  homeopaths
 ought  to be confined in  the penitentiary.
    You are asked to legislate against this scientific
 progress, and in favor of that species of quackery
 which  rejoices  in  willful  and  sullen  ignorance,
 makes  war  upon  our  medical  benefactors,  anel
 has been especially hostile  to  the  beneficent en-
 trance  of  Avomen into the profession.
   AVas not  that treatment Avhich  hurried  every
 consumptive to  his  grave  a system  of gloomy
 quackery?  Was  not  the  treatment of cholera
 during the  past forty years very  largely a fatal
 quackery ?  Was not  the bleeding and salivatino-
 practice, which has lately been overthrown, a fear-
 ful, bloody, poisonous quackery?  And is not the
 cancer  treatment, which knows"nothing  but to use
 the knife anel wait the re-appearance of the disease
 ina more aggravated condition, a loathsome quack-
 ery in  high places contrasted  Avith  a  successful
 practice which  the Trades-Union  colleges  ostra-
 cise, asking your aid by law to  resist  its'progress,
 and drive the poor victims, dying of cancer, away
 from hope of relief, to death by the assistance of
 the surgeon's knife ?
  You are asked to undo the work accomplished
 by  our  fathers for the vindication of the right of
 all to "life, liberty, and  the pursuit of happiness,"
anel to overturn the foundations  of liberty sealed
by thier blood.  The inalienable right to "liberty
and the pursuit  of happiness"  which you  arc
asked to assail, is the right to conduct  our lives by 
1;H)       origin  of yellow fever.

our own  judgment  in all matters Avhatever,  free
from  governmental  interference, until avc violate
the rights of others.   If avc have not this individ-
ual sovereignty A\'e are not  free—avc elo not live-
in a republic.
  The government  Avhich  tells  me  Avhat  I  shall
believe or what minister I shall sustain, is a  des-
potism,  no  matter  Avhat  it may be called,  and
equally  despotic is  a government  which tells me
what I  shall  believe  about  the human constitu-
tion, its diseases and the art  of healing them, or
whom I shall ask to help me in  the hour of sick-
ness and danger.  That is a right  which  no re-
public can abridge,  for when  it does it ceases to
be a republic; it is a despotism in fact, whatever
may be its  form, and the citizen whose rights are
thus trampled on, would be right,  in  the eyes of
God and man, in defying the power of any such
law and  resisting it to the death.   He would die
as a martyr to vindicate  the  inalienable rights of
man.
  The officer  of a  pseudo-commonwealth Avho at-
tempts to enforce such a laAV may and should be
resisted, for he is assuming a power  Avhich no leg-
islature can rightly  confer; he is himself a crimi-
nal,  and  if he should  destroy life in his attempt
he Avould be  morally a murderer—the homicide
being so  much more odious because  committed in
the attempt to enforce a species  of slavery.
  Never, while  the  National  Constitution  guar-
antees a republican  form  of  government to each
state, can the citizens of any  state  be expected to
submit tamely to the destruction of their inalienable
rights.  The Constitution  of the United States,
in guaranteeing  to every  state a republican form
of government,  certainly  prohibits  the establish- 
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uieut of any  privileged  class avIio alone  can en-
gage in certain occupations, or license all others to
do the  same by  their permission, and Avho alone
can enforce their contracts and  obtain  compensa-
tion for their labor.
  If state  legislatures  can do these things at all,
they can legislate any  class  they please out of
existence, or drive them from the state.  They can
deprive  the Quaker of  the  right  of  collectinu
debts because he  will not bear arms;  they can de-
prive the Jew of his right of  payment for service
or goods, as a penalty for not observing the Sun-
day laws, or they  could make equally "preposter-
ous laAvs against  old bachelors and old maids, or
against any Avho  have  not  studied  or  will  not
study  the   Westminster  catechism.   But the  fact
is, the  state has no  right to  prescribe to  its citi-
zens that  they  shall study or  believe any book
whatever, or any science  Avhatever, and, still more
it has no right  to prescribe, as a penalty for  fail-
ure, that they  shall be  fined or lose their right
to collect  their  debts, Avhich is a  mild form of
outlaAvry, as much against the spirit of our insti-
tutions as a bill of attainder,  Avhich is specifically
prohibited.
  Xo state  (says the Federal Constitution) "shall
pass any laAv  impairing  the obligation  of  con-
tracts," nor " deny to any person within its juris-
diction the  equal protection of the laAvs " ; " ex-
cessive bail shall not  be required, nor excessive
fines imposed ;  nor cruel and unusual  punishments
inflicted."
  These classes,  Avithout reference  to others of
similar tendency, emphatically forbid this medical
Trades-Union legislation to violate contracts made
with independent  practitioners   of  medicine—to 
132       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
deprive  that most  respectable and useful class of
citizens of "the equal protection of the laws," and
impose  "excessive fines " and  "cruel and unusual
punishments," not  for any crime  whatever, but
for obeying the Divine injunctions, which require
us, Avhen Ave can, to heal the sick by all the means
in our power, and which promise  to all who love
the Lord and obey his  Avord great gifts and poAv-
ers of healing without  any medical study or col-
legiate license.
  Is it possible  that any sane  man could think of
making it a crime to obey this higher laAV ?  As
Avell might we  make it a crime for a mother to
give Nature's nourishment to  her  babe,  in order
that some factory of artificial  milk or baby-food
might have a monopoly,  as to make it a crime for
the born healer (like the great  religious leaders in
Catholic anel Protestant churches from Elijah and
Elisha to  Luther and the Catholic saints, or  like
Greatrakes and  SAveet,)  to exercise  his  godlike
power of beneficence—the flow of  Divine love
through  human  channels.   AVhen you  legislate
against this, you not only shock all common sense
and humanity, but  you make a Avar upon that re-
ligious liberty Avhich our fathers fought  to estab-
lish  and for which their descendants  are Avilling
to fight again, whether  they  encounter a priest or
a doctor on the war-path.
  American freemen have  secured their personal
rights, not only in the Federal constitution, but in
every state constitution, by supreme laAvs of simi-
lar  import.  For instance:  The  constitution of
Illinois,  adopted  in 1848, guaranteed certain in-
herent and indefeasible  rights, among  which are
those of enjoying and  elefending life and liberty,
and of acquiring, possessing and protecting prop- 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       133

erty and  reputation, and of pursuing their own
happiness."  No restrictive  law against any class
of practitioners could exist under such a constitu-
tion.
  The Constitution  of   Massachusetts,  also,  in
Article 2d, guarantees against any injury in "per-
son, liberty or  estate,"  for any  exercise of religi-
ous freedom, and of course for any exercise of the
Divine gift of healing as commanded to all Christ-
ians who possess it.  In Article  6  it  elenies  to
every " man corporation or  association  of  men,
particular  and  exclusive privileges distinct  from
those of  the community."    Article 7   eleclares
that government is  " for the common good, and
not for the profit, honor or private interest of any
one man, family or class of men."  Article 24 con-
demns laAvs Avhich punish actions done before such
laAvs existed, and therefore forbids such legislation
as would inflict injury or punishment  on  men who,
in time of freedom, have adoptee! the meelical pro-
fession as they deemed  best, and invested  all their
capital and their life's labor in their practice, the
interruption of Avhich would  be their total ruin—
effected not for the  public good, but to promote
the "private interest"  of a class of men  who are
forbidden by the constitution to obtain  such  an
advantage by legislation, or  any " particular and
exclusive privileges."
  But it may be said the proposed  law deprives
the citizen of no right of choice, it only prohibits
certain persons now practicing medicine from con-
tinuing to do  so because the " regular "   societies
Avish to get rid of their competition, and the  state
is Avilling to take sides in a matter of professional
rivalry to help one of the parties. 
134       ORKON OF YELLOW FEVER.
     This is but  a  subterfuge.  If I  and ray friends
   desire  to  employ  a Swedenborgian or Universa-
   list minister,  I am just as effectually deprived of
   my right by  a laAV to prohibit them from officiat-
   ing as if the law hael  been aimeel at myself.  The
   object  of the  laAV in this case  is simply  to pre-
   vent the citizens  of any state into Avhose code of
* enactments it  may be introduced from  exercising
   the freedom they have heretofore  enjoyed (under
   the supposition that they were living in  a Repub-
   lic), of employing  the  services of  physicians in
   whom  they have  confidence.    It  is really an as-
   sault upon the vested rights of every citizen, sole-
   ly for the purpose  of establishing  an odious medi-
   cal monopoly, and the fines which are to be inflict-
   ed ought to be inflicted upon the  patron who em-
   ploys  anel  pays,  as  avcII  as  the physician who
   serves.
     If a member of'any legislature  should  be at-
   tacked by that fatal disease, cancer, he  Avould be
   under such a laAV deprived of all hope of recovery
   unless  he could find  some one to relieve him Avho
   could not be driven out  of the field by the admin-
   istration of the laAV, administereel as it would be
   by  men anxious to  perfect their  monopoly  and
   crush all competition.
     Under such a law there Avoulel be a sudden and
   lamentable diminution in the resources of the heal-
   ing art; for it is no secret that in  addition to the di-
   versified medical resources  of the Independents,
   which  are  unknown  and  unused in   the fossil
   schools, there is a vast amount of healing power
   in the  human constitution,  the   application of
   Avhich  requires no profound study of   medicine.
   The triumphs  of  Mesmerism  anel  of  Mesmeric
   Hospitals are amply recorded in  \vorks of unqnes- 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        130

tionable  reliability.   The mesmeric healers,  who
have  a natural  vocation  to  the curative  art, be-
come  a proscribed class under the  laAV, and benev-
olence becomes a crime.  Against  such laws rebel-
lion is a  duty, for they are  null  and void under
the Divine laAV, and  under every  Republican con-
stitution.
  But there is something more than  this.    Reli-
gion in its purest form and highest manifestations
is a fountain of healing poAver.   The promise of
Christ that his  faithful folloAvers should do wiiat
he diel in the healing of disease, has  been  true
throughout  the centuries.  Wherever vital pietv
has been glowing with  the  Avarmth of the apos-
tolic age, healing poAver has  been present in the
church.  It  would extend these  remarks  too far to
quote the multitudinous  evidences  of  this  great
truth—the constant  evidence ever in the world of
the power of Goel and his angels  dAvelling among
his faithful worshippers.
  The truly pious  soul,  ever attended  by  good
angels and the  holy spirit,  is a moral and physi-
cal blessing  wherever that soul  may be present,
diffusing  love and righteousness, healing the in-
firm soul and curing the  infirm body -sometimes
by prayer—sometimes by the simplc"ministrations
of the hands and the eyes.
  And all this overfloAV of Divine love,  this prac-
tical  Christianity, this  introduction of  the  king-
dom of heaven, is to be made unlaAvful by human
statutes in order that the mercenary pursuits of
pill-venders  may  prosper, and  Mammon   grow
great  A\diilc  the  Divine  poAver is placed  under an
interdict.
  If there can  be any  more anti-republican, mer-
cenary anel impious scheme than this devised, what 
136       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

can  it  be?   The gooel woman Avhose nursing,
prayers, and ministrations  have raised  your wife
from death  to  life, may be robbed of her all and
turned into  the streets a pauper, Avhile  her  prop-
erty goes to the benefit of the scounelrel, whom it
would be flattery  to  call  a  thief,  Avho has been
base enough to bring suit against her.
  Are the sovereign  states of this nation  to be
made parties to this vile business, and offer these
rewards for a form of scoundrel ism far  below the
level of highway robbery ?
  Pitiable,  ineleed, must have been the  malignity
xjf a mind that could  have invented such legisla-
tion as this, and, conscious of the baseness of  the
penalty proposed, could have sought the slums to
finel one base  enough to enforce  such  a law  by
offering these  premiums for such  villainy—as, for
instance,  is provided  for in Section 8 of the law
just defeated in Massachusetts, and  in Section 8 of
■the statute iioav unhappily in  force in New Hamp-
shire.  Shame,  Avhere  is thy blush ?  Not on the
cheeks of the champions of  the Meelical Trades-
Union Avho devise such laAvs—Liavs  against Avhich
humanity and  decency revolt—which  must  en-
list  in  their  enforcement  the most abaudoned
wretches in  society.
  But  surely  all this  eliscussion is  neeelless if we
are living in a  republic where all men have equal
rights.  If the  right  to earn  a livelihood  in any
honest, Avell-meaning way  is self-evident,  and the
right to eleal  in all our business with  Avhom we
please, Avithout the interference of governments,
police or  soldiers is   equally  self-evident,  what
neeel  is there  to  discuss  for one  moment these
pragmatic  anel  tyrannical  schemes to   regulate 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       137

 public  opinion  anel practice in reference  to heal-
 ing ?
  They  are all of the same pestilent brooel of despot-
 ic heresies which Ave supposeel Avas buried on the 4th
 of  July,  1776 :  and  if  they  are noAV to be ex-
 humed  from their foul graves to stand at the head
 of the seconel century of  the Republic, it will be-
 come a curious  question how far Ave have degen-
 erated from our Revolutionary sires, and  whether
 the Republic may not, after  all, prove  a failure,
 since Ave have so soon forgotten  the- fundamental
 principles of liberty.
   What pretext can there be for such a tyranni-
 cal laAV, which is not eepially good for the regula-
 tion of  other crafts as avcII as  the medical ?   Do
 avc not neeel protection  against botch carpenters
.anel builders, humbug architects, tricky butchers,
 blundering  speculators,  bankers and merchants,
 ignorant  of  financial laws,  who are continually
 sinking millions of their victims' money in bank-
 ruptcy, humbug engineers, Avithout education, who
 build Avorthless  bridges,  and explode sound boil-
 ers,  half-educated  legislators   AA7ho  understand
 neither political economy nor  the rights of man,
 inexperienced ship  and  steamboat  captains, and
 the host of incompetents Avhose shortcomings go
 so far toward making up the sum total of human
 misery ?  If the Avorld is to be  regulated by  the
 wisdom of  a Legislature, its  sessions should be
 perpetual, and every man and  woman shoukl be
 put  through  an apprenticeship  before  they  can
 earn a living at  anything, anel should then be ex-
 amined by a committee  of a Trades-Union inter-
 ested to keep them out of employment as long  a>
^possible.  It is  strange that Ave have to  discuss
 these seventeenth  century  notions  to-day in this 
13S       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

enlightened nation  at the  demand of a medical
clique, not the  leading or best educated members
of the profession, for  they do not depend on laAV,
but a loAver grade  of doctors Avho Avant its help
against a competition too strong for their limited
abilities.
  Let  us  iioav  consider  the origin  anel  nature  of
the proposed law.   If  the  people, considering
themselves victimized by frauds,  had petitioned
for some  such  protection against fraudulent med-
ical impostors, there would be some plausibility
in the claim that medical  practitioners, as a class
of  suspected felons,  should be put under govern-
mental surveillance, and all the vigilance of French
police, genelarmerie  and  passports   brought into
play.
  But this is not the fact.  The employers of In-
dependent practitioners  are  not a elissatisfied class.
complaining  of imposture anel asking protection.
The trouble is just the  reverse—they are too Avell
satisfied, and every day they tell their satisfaction
to some one who has been  victimized  by regular
quackery  anel tell him  where to find relief—tell
him of some clairvoyant,  some spiritual eloctor,
some magnetic  healer, some eclectic, some  homeo-
path,  some hydropath, some electrician, some pneu-
matic  practitioner,  some  gymnastic  curer,  some
Turkish  bather, avIio has vanquished Avith  magi-
cal celerity diseases that have baffled regulars and
emptied their poor victim's purse.
  This  is the difficulty—" hence  these tears "—
these  frantic  appeals  for  help.  It  is a sad thino-
for graduates Avith two square  feet of diploma
parchment to have the  man whom, after a year's
attendance, they have given  up to die, consult a
clairvoyant and recover in a month—or get  a feAv 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       13'-'

 phials of the well-known " Yegetable  Pulmonary
 Balsam," and recover  health—a  thing which has
 happened with distressing frequency.
   If avc appeal to the people  to learn avIio  have
 been  imposed upon—if  any legislature   will ap-
 point a  commission   to investigate this subject as
 thoroughly as the labor question has been investi-
 gated,  and collect statistics as  they  have  been
 collected in vital anel mortuary  matters—the re-
 sult Avill be  more alarming to the Trades-Union
 combination than  anything that has ever hap-
 pened.   It  would sIioav that under  regular  prac-
 tice the expenses are great, the recoA'eries  slow,
 the percentage  of mortality large, and the satis-
 faction small—not only patients  themselves being-
 skeptical as to its success, but the practitioners
 also  being profoundly  skeptical  as  to their oavu
 power  to  combat  disease—skeptical  as  to  the
 value of medicines anel the value of their oavu ser-
 vices, and inclined to believe all  other practition-
 ers humbugs, mainly  because many of them know
 themselves  to be  such, and believe, like Dr. Jen-
 nings, that their medicines are  of little value, al-
 though they have not the lionest courage  like him,
 to substitute bread pills and colored poAvders, and
 confess the fact.
   As "conscience makes  cowards of us  all,"  so
 has the  meelical conscience, which is  skepticism
 or a consciousness of its oavu incompetence, per-
 vaded and paralyzed  the " regular "  organization,
 which everywhere  is sending forth young  men
 without faith  or hope to  encounter disease  with
meagre resources.
  The very den of this miasma  is a bigoted  and
"regular""  medical   college  which  ridicules the 
140        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
success achieved by Indepenelents,  and teaches  its
pupils  to  laugh at statistics!  Harvard  College
Meelical School is helpless, dotted and rotten with
internal skepticism.  The skeptical  teachings  of
Prof. Clark, however, are hardly as  discouraging
as the Avitty confession of Professor  Holmes that,
if all the medicines were  throAvn into  the'sea, it
would be worse for the  fishes but  better for man-
kind.
   It is many years since the highest authority of
Regularismsurrendered  their cause at the bar of
public  opinion.   Dr. Forbes, of  the British and
Foreign Medical RevieAv, manfully faced the sta-
tistics of homeopathy Avhich displayed the  super-
ior success  of  the disciples of  Hahneman, and
taking  as   his  postulate  that   homeopathy Avas
Avorthless or nothing at all, drew the fair anel honest
inference that allopathy too  Avas a failure.   There
was nothing remarkable in the inference  but the
courage and honesty of Dr. Forbes in publishing it
to the world.
   Further  discussion of the validity of the claims
•of Regularism to elominate over the people woulel
be entirely  useless, for  intelligent people every-
Avhere  are  profoundly  skeptical  as  to  medical
science.    An insurance company in the city of
NeAV York, finding foAver eleaths among  its pat-
rons Avho adopted the homeopathic system, offered
life  insurance on  much  better  terms  to  all Avho
Avere Avilling to use the  homeopathic  practice,
following  in this matter the results  of their sta-
tistics.
   Such statistics as these the public  welfare eloes
require, and their collection would be a most  bene-
iicent and legitimate action of the legislature, and 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        14 [
 i s  indeed an indispensable preliminary to  all en-
 lightened legislation on this subject.
   I ask, therefore, in behalf of the Independent
 practitioners of the country, the appointment by
 its  legislature  of an honorable medical statistical
 bureau  in each  state,  composed  of  persons  of
 capacity for research and  impartiality,  not belong-
 ing to the  medical profession or in any way in-
 terested in it by  business or family ties, who shall
 register and publish, as far as possible,  the medical
 practice of said State—first recording every death,
 the nature  and duration  of the disease, the name
 of  the attending  physician and his mode of prac-
 tice ;  secondly, if  found   possible,  to  record all
 cases  of disease,  the time lost to the patients, the
 recoveries and deaths, with the name and practice
 of  the physician.
  From such  a record the people may learn who
 are  quacks or pretenders  to skill,  and who it is
 that can relieve a patient most quickly,  safely and
 satisfactorily.   I  ask this,  feeling, like all others,
 that if I call in a  physician for myself or my fami-
 ly,   I  would like  to knoAV the true record of his
 success.   The Independent practitioners as  unani-
 mously and  earnestly desire  this test as their op-
 ponents dread it.
  With all their boastful  confidence  and assump-
 tion, the  allopathic practitioners generally  Avould
 feel an interior and shuddering dread  of the  re-
 sults, anel Avould protest loudly against the degra-
 dation of weighing  themselves and  their rivals in
 the  same scales of blind, impartialjustice.   It is
 doubtful    Avhether   one    allopathic    physi-
 cian in ten would  dare face this ordeal, or would
make any reports  if not compelled by laAV.  Skep-
ticism  and  a dread  of free investigation are the 
Ill'        ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.

characteristics  of the  Trades-Union, Avhile cheer-
fulness, confidence,  a conviction of their own su-
periority anel a readiness to meet any  practical
test,  are the characteristics of Independents gen-
erally of every class.
  The homeopath  generally  has more confidence
than the allopath,  and courts comparisons.  The
eclectic is  perhaps still   more confident.   The
electrician, the  pneumatic practitioner,  the cancer-
curer and the clairvoyant would hold  a jubilee if
you would  give them the  opportunity, by a legis-
lative commission or bureau, of appealing to the
stern arbitrament of  authentic facts, and  refut-
ing the cloud of slanders uttered  by their  oppo-
nents.
  It is to preclude all such  investigations, to elis-
grace  their rivals  anel blindfold the  public, that
the bill  for  a  monopoly, the  violation of eepial
rights, is urged upon your attention.   But avc can-
not believe that a  legislature  of any  state  (if it
fairly  represents the people)  Avill  unsheathe the
sword of arbitrary  power to settle  by brute force
a question of justice and benevolence, Avhich can be
settled only by fair statistics.   You cannot honor-
ably vote to  excluele all evideuce before you legis-
late in  answer  to the selfish  demands of a clique.
Let  us,  then,  have light—the light   of  science,
Avhich is systemized facts, which you  can obtain
by the appointment of a commission.
  We ask,  therefore, in  place of the tyrannical
legislation  proposed  in  behalf of the  medical
Trades-Union,  which would  rob every  citizen of
one of his  iuaiienable rights,  the  appointment of
a commission of non-medical  men and women of
high  standing  for  intelligence and integrity,  to
ascertain and report every six  months the eteaths 
           ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.        143

occurring in the state, Avith the  nature  of the dis-
eases and the names anel styles of practice of the
atteneling  physicians, Avith  authority, also, to in-
vestigate  anel  report wherever practicable the
amount  of sickness  in any population, the time
lost thereby, anel the number of recoveries anel
deaths,  Avith the names of  the physicians   con-
cerned.
   We ask, also, that the statute  be so framed as
to compel a fair investigation—compel every phy-
sician to make  an  honest report when  called  on,
anel not permit  those Avho are conscious of practi-
cal  inferiority to retreat behind  their dignity or
their Trades-Union rules, anel suppress the facts.
   In conclusion, Ave would  respectfully  suggest
that when full statistical results shall  have  been
thus obtained,  anel  the value or  superiority of
any method of  practice definitely established  by
unansAverable statistics  to  the satisfaction   of all
impartial persons, it would be highly proper that
all institutions  authorizeel  to confer a meelical  di-
ploma should be required  to give thorough in-
structions  in that methoel of treatment,  appointing
for  that purpose a  professor or professors  nomi-
nated by the practitioners who follOAv the success-
ful method.
   It is self-evident that, by such a law,  avc should
immensely enhance the  respectability  and useful-
ness of  the  medical profession, giving  them a
broad instead of a narrow education, and  cleaving
in two the ancient glaciers  of eighteenth  century
bigotry, Avhich now surround the fossil schools, and
exclude  the sunlight of modern  progress. 
144       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
PETITION FOB A MEDICAL COMMISSION

To------------

  The  undersigned,  petitioning  your  honorable
body, respectfully ask the establishment of a co m-
mission composed of men and  Avomen  of  high
standing, integrity and intelligence, not connected
in any  way with  the meelical  profession, or meeli-
cal societies, or business, authorized to collect ex-
act and reliable statistics of all the  deaths occur-
ring in this state, the diseases  or causes of said
deaths, the names of the  physicians and systems
   practice followed by  them, and the  length of
time of the diseases,  and  the treatment thereof,
anel to  report  the same  semi-annually.   Also, so
far as may  be practicable, to report for any popula-
tion in the state the number of cases of disease, Avith
the duration, treatment and result of the same, the
time lost by the  patients, Avith  the names of the
physicians and their schools of practice, believing,
as Ave do, that  such  a  commission Avould result in
the increase of  medical knoAvIedge, and  the  dimi-
nution  of medical fraud and quackery.
                                     Justice. 
ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER       145
              NATURE'S LAWS.

 HAS NATURE i'UOVIDED REMEDIES EOR DISEASE \'S.
                       ALL ?

   1 take the ground that Nature has not provided
 remedies  for diseases at all.    She has [provided
 only penalties, but no remedies.
   Diseases  are  the consequence  of a departure-
 from physiological laAvs.
   There is  no cure but obeelience.  The language
 of Nature is not,  If  wrong is  done,  take  a dose
 of oil,  and  prevent  evil ?  oh,  no ! but  the lan-
 guage of  Nature  is.  If Avrong is done, evil mnsV,
 certainly  folloAV.
   Have  you ever stopped long  enough to con-
 sider the character and nature of sin, and of Avhat
 it really consists ; or do you  not think it  worth
 your while to make any enquiries about it?  Hare
 you ever considered or thought  of the consequen-
 ces that invariably folloAV sin,  or imagined that
 these consequences could be set aside by the use ©i
 medicines or elrugs ?
  These consequences are invariable results, and
the moment a sin is committed against health the
results very naturally folloAV.
  If you Avere really acquainted with the subject^.
and were well versed in the law, you would freely
admit that law consists of punishable orunchange-
    10 
14G        ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.
able results.  It might  be well for us to ask the
question right here,
  What is law ?
  You attach  fire to straw and it  burns.  That is
one law, and  would you even  pretend  to  assert
that medicine could change  the ashes into straw
again ?  Never could  drug medicine  restore that
straw after being burned.
  In this instance the use  of drug  medicine  Avould
simplv be what ?  An exhibition of fraud.
  The  Creator  has not been so inconsistent as to
ordain  penalties to secure obedience  to  his laws,
and then provide remedies to do  away with  the
penalties.
  According to  the teachings  of all drug-medical
systems, Nature has  provided  remedies for  dis-
eases in the  things outside of  the living organism,
in the things which are  incompatible with its nor-
mal functions, and destructive to all of its tissues
—in poisons.   If this be true, Nature  has very
foolishly gotten into an  internecine war  with her-
self.
  My  faith  is  in the Avisdom of Nature;  hence
when Nature's teachings conflict with the theories
of men, I must hold fast to the former.
  The  world's redemption from diseases, doctors
and drugs, depends on  a  practical recognition  of
the doctrine that Nature's laws cannot be violated
Avith impunity ; that penalties will not be  remitted ;
that Nature has not provided remedies ; that, if
wrong is done, evil consequences will follow ; that
every poisonous drug, and every  unphysiological
habit,  and  every  unhealthful act, will  make its
injurious mark irreparably  and forever; that our
life, our strength, our health will be measured  ex-
actly by our observance of organic laws. 
          ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.       147

  This, I repeat—and I would elo so with empha-
sis—is the doctrine of the  world's physiological
salvation.   It is the true gospel of health on earth
and good deeds among men.
  Sickness is the punishment for  being disobedient
to Nature's  laws.   Health is the reward for obe-
dience to Nature's laws.   If this AA7ere not so, the
disobeyers were as Avell off  then as the  men who
strictly obeyed the laws; there woulel  be no re-
ward  and  there could be no punishment.
  Teach men that Nature has made no  provision
to destroy or nullify her own statutes ; that health
or disease will be according to obedience or dis-
obedience, and they  will have  a  motive  as strong
as love of pleasure or aversion to pain, an influ-
ence  as potent as the love  of life or the  fear of
death, to act in all the relations of their existence
in strict reference to " temperance, righteousness
and judgment to come."
  But the contrary doctrine is taught now-a-days.
They  teach them that Nature's laws can  be broken
at pleasure, and then mended again  Avhen conveni-
ent.   Is it a wonder why so many are  sick; is it
a wonder why so many crimes are  daily  com-
mitted ? Is it not an incentive to encourage others to
commit sin.  The old theories taught by theologians
that prayer is a remedy for sin, are false.
  The old theories taught by physicians that Na-
ture's laws can be broken at pleasure  and mended
again when convenient, are false and  without the
least truth attached to  them.   But  without this
theory their business crumbles to decay and be-
comes absolutely nothing.
  And the community  rather believes in the false
theories than they do in the true ones, because they
find immediate  advantage  or enjoyment  in so do- 
 148       ORIGIN OF YELLOW FEVER.

 iug, anel then, when the consequences have become
 very grievous, they can resort to remedies to restore
 them to their former estate, anel they will do what ?
 Dr. R. T. Trail says, Why i  Just what the ma-
 jority of the people, led on  by their  meelical  ael-
 viscrs, are doing all over the  civilized world—
 living  in utter recklessness of Nature's laws,  in-
 curring all manner of diseases, and continually em-
 ploying the eloctors  to elose  the rebellious  vis
 aaedicatrix, anel drug aAvay the penalties.
   I only allude to these old theories to  prove that
 they are not reliable, as Avell  as to show that it is
 necessary for man to stuely his one gooel for himself.
   I also allude to these olel theories  in order to
 prove that  every one must take care  that he does
 ,not commit  sin, and that he must avoid one and
 all that proves to the great injury to his health ; or
 lie may find, by sad  experience,  that  the remedy
 which  has been spoken  of,  might prove  worth-
 less.
   It would, therefore,  be safer not to  commit  sin
 in the first  place, for, by choosing to  commit sin,
 you cannot well avoid  accepting  all  of the conse-
 quences that naturally folloAV.
   I must here  manifest  one important  fact which
 must not be forgotten, and  that is that all the
 prayers in  the worlel  can never release the con-
sequences of guilt.
   Have you ever stopped long enough to consider
 tflie character  and nature of sin, and  of what it
sreaily consists; or do you not think it worth  your
 while to make any enquiries about it ?
   Have you ever considered  or  thought  of the
te®nsequences that invariably  follow  sin; or  im-
:sgined that these consequences could be set aside
3sy the use  of prayer, or by the use of medicine V 
ORIGIN  OF YELLOW FEVER.       149
   If  you  have done  anything contrary  to  law,
does the huv demand, if you have committed tres-
pass or  murder, that you must pray in order to
get restored  of not being guilty of such deeds ;
you suppose that prayer coulel make you to  be no
sinner ?  There is no medicine that can restore you
the health which has been once lost.
   Do you believe  that prayer will  release  you
from the stains of guilt ?  It never can.
   Dr. R. T. Trail says,  "Our system is accused of
being one ideaism."
   It is the farthest from it.    The charge  applies
Avith a thousanel fold more propriety to the system
it opposes.  Our system employs remedial agents,
everything in the universe Avhich has normal  rela-
tions  to the living organism.
   It rejects only that which is abnormal.  What-
soever things Nature can use under these  circum-
stances, A\re prescribe; whatever Nature must re-
sist, we proscribe.
   Our materia medica comprehends all agencies,
materials and influences, which are useful, usable,
healthful, normal, hygienic anel physiological.
   The materia meelica of the drug system is made
up of   materials,  agencies   and   influences—
bleeding, blistering, drugs, etc., which are injuri-
ous, non-usable,  antagonistic, toxicological, patho-
logical.   It does, indeed, contain a list of  some
two thousanel medicines, but  as each  happens to
be poison,  its single idea of cure is correctly rep-
resented by the  term, poisonopathy.  Does  one-
ideaism consist in supplying the body, in  its dis-
eased  state, •vith all favorable  conditions and cir-
cumstances, or in simply poisoning it because it is
sick?
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