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SANITARY COMMISSION.
Q.
ON YELLOW FEVER.
It will probably fall to the lot of many Army Surgeons to
treat this disease during the occupation of Southern territories
by the Union Forces.
Inasmuch as it is eminently desirable that easy reference to
correct authority concerning its nature and management should
be within reach of the Medical Staff of our service, the Sani-
tary Commission have thought proper to prepare for circulation
the following paper :
In medical literature the affection is now so well known and
so universally recognized by the name at the head of this page
as to render unnecessary an enumeration of its synonyms.
Locality.--In America the disease is met with, habitually,
in the West India islands and in the cities of the Atlantic and
Gulf shores, south of Charleston, the latter being included.
Occasionally its visitations have extended farther north,
to
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Nor have cities and
towns on the Mississippi River been exempt from its ravages.
New Orleans has suffered many fatal epidemics, whilst Mem-
phis, in Tennessee, has hitherto been its northern limit in the
Great Valley. More recently, it has appeared in inland towns
and on plantations not remote from the river banks. It is
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