Excerpt from Yellow Fever: A Treatise on Its Cause, Nature, Prevention and Cure

Being a question of the Medical Sciences, namely: anatomy, organic and ganjo chemistry, physiology and pathology, to you exclusively belong its study and consideration, and not to the outside secular world, all of whom are utter strangers to the Sciences named and who, notwithstanding, taking advantage of the apathy of medical men, are ever swaying to and fro, floundering in all kinds of ridiculous and mechanical notions and expressions uttered in the public press, ' in a vain effort to furnish a solution. Which is far beyond their reach and Sphere; and who, instead of looking for it in the human body where the disease origi nates, is seated and can be seen and found; who, instead of looking for it in the Sciences mentioned, are ever trying to hunt it up in other lands, in distant coun tries where the inhabitants themselves have never found it, can't say whence it comes - whither it goes; who are looking for it in ships, gutters, sewers, streets, ofial matter and swamps, as if these were not the same the world over; looking for it in all kinds of vague mechanical expressions, viz: germs, wee animals spores; looking in every place except the right one; 111 every notion except in those derived from the Medical Sciences, which alone unmask it, disclose, reveal it, reducing it to a thing of nothing - scattering it to the winds.

Gentlemen, you are appealed to in the heart-rending accents of wives, bereft of husbands, of the tears and wailings of innocent children, bereft of parents, abandoned to desolation and consigned to a cruel, stormy, ruthless world with out protection or proviswn, you are thus appealed to to wrest this question from the vague, crude, uncouth expressions and futile researches of the secular world, and transfer it to the Scientific, luminous one to which you belong and which can and will disclose the nature and prevention of this phantom complaint; and arrest for all time its horrors and ghastly exactions.

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