Finlay, Carlos Autograph manuscript notebook on yellow fever and other subjects a closely-written and highly detailed volume containing day-by-day patient casebook reports, recording temperature-readings, symptoms, and outcomes, interspersed with transcriptions from scientific journals regarding yellow fever, some entries of a diary nature, with reference to Finlay's wife Adele, written mostly in Spanish, with parts in French, occasionally in English, with a general index and a 4-page "Mosquito index - 1883-1884" at the end, with autograph title on verso of front free endpaper ("Notes on Yellow Fever & other subjects 1884 - July 8th 1884"), WITH TWO DRAWINGS OF INSECTS, one apparently a barklouse of the genus Psocus, 240 numbered pages, including c. 10 blanks, 8vo (c. 20.7 x 16cm), with some newspaper cuttings laid down, including a four-column report from The New York Weekly Herald, Saturday, 6 September 1884 ("Yellow Fever in New York"), bookplate ("Libro Major A-M Paris") to front free endpaper, remains of manuscript labels to spine, contemporary diced half roan, patterned paper boards, [Havana?,] July 1884-February 1885, browned, spine and corners rather rubbed, some worming to spine …Letter from Jane to Adele in answer to queries on above subject dated Orange Dec. 5 1884.: ‘I hasten to reply to Carles about the attack of yellow fever that dear Nick had at his birth. It is so long ago that I may forget some of the particulars but what I can remember is this[‘]... A WORKING NOTEBOOK DETAILING FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH INTO A DEADLY EPIDEMIC DISEASE. Yellow fever was probably brought to the New World on slave ships, and severe epidemics caused great suffering and disruption over several centuries. Yellow fever was a principal cause of the horrendous mortality in the Caribbean slave plantations; an outbreak of yellow fever forced the US government to flee its capital (Philadelphia) in 1793; and the devastation of the disease thwarted French efforts to build a Panama canal in the 1880s. It was the great Spanish and Cuban epidemiologist Carlos Finlay (1833-1915) who first realized that the mosquito was the carrier of yellow fever. His breakthough in understanding the transmission of the virus was first presented at the 1881 International Sanitary Conference. In the following year, two years before the date of the present notebook (1884), Finlay was able to determine that the mosquito in question was of the genus Aedes. In addition to this work he also correctly surmised that cholera was a water-borne disease and that the thread used in tying the umbilical cords of new-borne babies transmitted tetanus. Evidently written mostly at breakneck speed, the notebook records in astonishing and painstaking detail the often harrowing individual case histories that formed part of Finlay's seminal and ground-breaking work.
Finlay, Carlos Autograph manuscript notebook on yellow fever and other subjects a closely-written and highly detailed volume containing day-by-day patient casebook reports, recording temperature-readings, symptoms, and outcomes, interspersed with transcriptions from scientific journals regarding yellow fever, some entries of a diary nature, with reference to Finlay's wife Adele, written mostly in Spanish, with parts in French, occasionally in English, with a general index and a 4-page "Mosquito index - 1883-1884" at the end, with autograph title on verso of front free endpaper ("Notes on Yellow Fever & other subjects 1884 - July 8th 1884"), WITH TWO DRAWINGS OF INSECTS, one apparently a barklouse of the genus Psocus, 240 numbered pages, including c. 10 blanks, 8vo (c. 20.7 x 16cm), with some newspaper cuttings laid down, including a four-column report from The New York Weekly Herald, Saturday, 6 September 1884 ("Yellow Fever in New York"), bookplate ("Libro Major A-M Paris") to front free endpaper, remains of manuscript labels to spine, contemporary diced half roan, patterned paper boards, [Havana?,] July 1884-February 1885, browned, spine and corners rather rubbed, some worming to spine …Letter from Jane to Adele in answer to queries on above subject dated Orange Dec. 5 1884.: ‘I hasten to reply to Carles about the attack of yellow fever that dear Nick had at his birth. It is so long ago that I may forget some of the particulars but what I can remember is this[‘]... A WORKING NOTEBOOK DETAILING FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH INTO A DEADLY EPIDEMIC DISEASE. Yellow fever was probably brought to the New World on slave ships, and severe epidemics caused great suffering and disruption over several centuries. Yellow fever was a principal cause of the horrendous mortality in the Caribbean slave plantations; an outbreak of yellow fever forced the US government to flee its capital (Philadelphia) in 1793; and the devastation of the disease thwarted French efforts to build a Panama canal in the 1880s. It was the great Spanish and Cuban epidemiologist Carlos Finlay (1833-1915) who first realized that the mosquito was the carrier of yellow fever. His breakthough in understanding the transmission of the virus was first presented at the 1881 International Sanitary Conference. In the following year, two years before the date of the present notebook (1884), Finlay was able to determine that the mosquito in question was of the genus Aedes. In addition to this work he also correctly surmised that cholera was a water-borne disease and that the thread used in tying the umbilical cords of new-borne babies transmitted tetanus. Evidently written mostly at breakneck speed, the notebook records in astonishing and painstaking detail the often harrowing individual case histories that formed part of Finlay's seminal and ground-breaking work.
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