Show I 1 ITHE THE STORY OF YELLOW FEVER A ANew New York dispatch says one surgeon is dying from a cut from an infected knife e another another another an an- other from the prick of an infected needle This is a penalty which surgeons have been paying ever s since nce surgery began After more than a cent century's rys ry's experiments it was found that yellow fever came from the sting pf pi f an infected mosquito Long before it was noted that a heavy frost stopped instantly a fever pestilence It must have been yellow apparent apparent ap ap- ap parent that the frost killed the cause of the fever that it must be some plant or insect One would think that some surgeon putting the fact of what produced blood poisoning poisoning-a a mere prick I of a needle would needle would have searched out what the frost killed and would at once have decided that thai it must be the mosquito But their eyes were blinded The first yellow fever case was found in the hold of a ship loaded with slaves in chains in Havana harbor It raged for more than a century until the last chain hain from the wrist of a slave was broken in Cuba |