Excerpt from Yellow Fever Commission, West Africa: Second Report The disease, which is the subject of the following sheets, does not happen annually at Senegal, but only in those years when the rains are extraordinarily frequent, heavy and ofa long continuance. The common diseases of the country during moderate rainy seasons are intermitting and remitting bilious fevers and fluxes. The first of these generally yield to antimonials and bark and are not very fatal; but the latter are very stubborn and if they are not overcome in the beginning they generally carry off the patients. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.