The prophylaxis of yellow fever / by G. M. Guiteras.

  • Guiteras, Gregorio Mario, 1863-1934.
Date:
1909
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    YELLOW FEVER INSTITUTE Treasury Department, Bureau of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. WALTER WTMAN, Surgeon-General. Bulletin No. 17. THE PROPHYLAXIS OF YELLOW FEVER. By G. M. Gttiteras, Surgeon, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. The study of yellow fever has ever been an interesting one from the time it was first observed in the Western Hemisphere to the present day. Whether the disease is indigenous to America or was introduced from the west coast of Africa, is a mooted question. From the his- torical data which we have on the subject it would appear as though the latter opinion was the correct one. The disease has been a scourge to the fair and fertile regions of tropical and subtropical America and has greatly retarded their material progress. Its existence in an endemic form at various points, such as Habana, Rio de Janeiro, and Vera Cruz, has given these ports an unenviable reputation with travelers and seriously hampered their commercial interests, and carried from these foci to other infectible territory it has caused widespread epidemics resulting in great loss of life, interference with commerce, and finan- cial disaster. The peculiar characteristics of the disease and the mystery which shrouded its etiology and method of propagation have invested it with remarkable interest, and in our day the solution of this mys- tery, in so far as the method of propagation is concerned, has given us one of the most important advances in modern science. The work of the United States Army Board in establishing beyond a doubt the hypothesis enunciated by Carlos Finlay, in 1881, as to the transmission of yellow fever by the mosquito, was indeed bril- liant. I had the pleasure of being present at the International Sani- tary Congress held in Habana when Doctor Heed presented his