Gas a Preventative of Fever

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Title: Gas a Preventative of Fever
Date: 21 January 1858
Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: per.01334
Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 21 January 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
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Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Gas a Preventative of Fever." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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GAS A PREVENTATIVE OF FEVER.—

The Medical Gazette, of Libson, asserts that all the persons of that city who reside in houses lighted by gas have escaped the yellow fever. If illuminating gas does really keep off contagious fevers the public may be reconciled to its high price.