The
Litter Belonging To This Mule Cargo Was Not Cleared Out Of Her Until
She Got Into Bonny, When It Was Thrown Overside Into The River, And
Then The Yellow Fever Broke Out.
But, on the other hand, South
America taxes West Africa - the Guinea Coast - with having first sent
out yellow fever in the cargoes of slaves.
This certainly is a
strange statement, because the African native rarely has malarial
fever severely - he has it, and you are often informed So-and-so has
got yellow fever, but he does not often die of it, merely is truly
wretched and sick for a day or so, and then recovers. {516}
Regarding the haematuria there is also controversy. A very
experienced and excellent authority doubts whether this is entirely
a malarial fever, or whether it is not, in some cases at any rate,
brought on by over-doses of quinine, and Dr. Plehn asserts, and his
assertions are heavily backed up by his great success in treating
this fever, that quinine has a very bad influence when the
characteristic symptoms have declared themselves, and that it should
not be given. I hesitate to advise this, because I fear to induce
any one to abandon quinine, which is the great weapon against
malaria, and not from any want of faith in Dr. Plehn, for he has
studied malarial fevers in Cameroon with the greatest energy and
devotion, bringing to bear on the subject a sound German mind
trained in a German way, and than this, for such subjects, no better
thing exists.
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