Show ABOUT YELLOW JACK ONE WHO LIVED THROUGH IT DESCRIBES THE DISEASE jacksonville fla is justson just no v a center of interest from the yellow fever raging anere the disease ha has taken staken euch a strong hold its ravages will doubt doubtless I 1 ess not notecase cease till a black frost ter temperature 32 dega or below comes and kills it after this once appears yellow fever cannot exist Havin ahad the disease I 1 can best give aeve an a idea 0 its course by noting my own experiences I 1 was sitting one october afternoon on a veranda in south carolina when I 1 experienced a slight chill ti tins wai followed by another and another till morang when I 1 suddenly threw every thing off my stomach about the same time I 1 was attacked with a terrific backache no pain I 1 ever suffered was so severe I 1 lay that night tossing with the fever it was a long iong dreary night which I 1 thought would never end but the next nest morning I 1 was better and my doctor who was not quite certain of what my trouble rouble was told me to keep quiet and he thought I 1 would be all right but the lever fever came back in lorce force and I 1 began to ta vomit continuously by this ibis time lime it was understood by those about me that I 1 had 1 allow I low fever but I 1 was not informed of the fac tand supposed I 1 was simply suffering buffering from one of the intermittent fevers common to the country at last I 1 began to chiow up blood this 1 have since understood der stood to be the next stage to black vomit which means death I 1 was alarmed at the blood but my nurse told me that thai it was caused by some medicine I 1 was taking and this reassured me they faey were giving we me qui vine dine pills of an enormous size I 1 became slightly sightly delirious but do not think there was much of the time th that a t I 1 ws not conscious of what was got going dg on about me I 1 had bad been ill five days and a crisis was at hand one night my attendants took me out of bed and rut gut me tit in a chair before an open fire wrapped hot blankets around me and put my feet in water so hot that it almost scalded them I 1 cant remember it if they gave me any hot drink but I 1 think not I 1 satin sat in this e hair chair a few minutes wondering what it all meant thought though too to ill to care very much but patiently submitting ab to everything rhen then suddenly I 1 broke into a profuse perspiration I 1 was put back to bed and left to a welter swelter without much attention alter after that I 1 lor I 1 was considered saved whether cheth ef there was danger in thus leaving me to do dons us I 1 liked or not I 1 dont know but I 1 kicked the covers coers e off andla and lav with a breeze blowing in on me through through an 0 open en window 1 never can forge the celicious Te delicious licious se sensation of relief lying with the breeze blowing in over me f ir was a day or two after this when one morning the doctor came round as as usual and when he be took my hand band I 1 noticed a changed expression suddenly came over his face you have a little fever he said I 1 thought this of no DO importance ampo artance for I 1 knew that I 1 had bad experienced perien Prien ced a good deal of fever but to the doctor it meant relapse and relapse in nine cases out of ten means death whether the doctor was mistaken or whether the fever was too slight to be of any serious harm barm I 1 at least felt no inconvenience from leand became convalescent and hyre here is a great danger to yellow lever patients I 1 felt a strength that did not exist I 1 was taken out of bed and put to in an easy chair my attendant left me and I 1 was tempted to go down stairs and reconnoiter recon luckily I 1 did not others wh were ill of ef the disease at the same game time relying on this deceptive feeling of having tally fully recovered acted imprudently one of them got up and dressed himself and smoked a cigar he was dead within a few hours after his indiscretion aden I 1 was well enough to be told what the trouble had bad really been I 1 found that I 1 had had bad the dreaded yellow fever f ever that out of a party of six five had been taken down and two out of the five had died the two from whom I 1 had been separated shortly before and with whom my relation was vei y near and dear had been in their graves live five or six days before I 1 knew of their death and ana before I 1 even knew that they were seriously ill the value of quinine as a preventative is indicated from froin the fact that of our pa party arty one ne took daily doses of w whiskey hiskey and q quinine 0 nine and though exposed in exactly the same mauner manner as an the rest toe the fever passed him bim lay by there seems to be little or no knowledge acquired which would enable physicians to cope successfully with yellow fever devern A physician physician who had it confided himself to the care of an old negro woman wao had bad had bad experience is a nurse narse tor for yellow fever patients and who watched min dim till he recovered tins tais cert tinly does not look well for tha cond confidence dence of physicians in such cases and there nag aas been no especial item of information revealed to the profession concerning the nature or treatments of the disease since the fever seems to gather violence as it becomes epidemic ordinary cases usually last five days but in malignant lignana AL cases the p patient a tient often die alesin n a few hours it is pretty well determined that yellow fever is not c contagious fagious tag ious in cases where a number of persons have been in the same house bouse wita one stricken they have all escaped contracting tr the disease the fact of ef having had the disease once is no preventative against having it again persons have been known to pass through two experiences ot of yellow fever and I 1 in third attack the horrors I 1 come rattier rather to those who are destined to die than sto ito those who recover after black vomit sets in the patient passes into convulsions convulsion and in the terrible spasms at last passes a way away it i is disputed that one who has black cannot recover bet it cases of recovery under such circumstances have ever occurred they are very rare sad and it is extremely doubtful if such a case has ever occurred for the I 1 coffee grounds black vomit resembles coffee grounds are supposed to be the stomach in a state of dissolution and it is not probable that one can live after dissolution of this organ sets in ia F A M |