Yellow fever sequence. This portrait,the third in a sequence of four,shows a young man with advanced yellow fever,jaundiced (yellow skin) and bleeding from the nose. Yellow fever is a tropical viral infection transmitted by mosquito bite. It causes fever,nausea,and headaches. A toxic form of the disease can lead to jaundice,internal bleeding,and death. This artwork is by Charles Philibert,Comte de Lasteyrie du Saillant (1759-1849). It is from an 1820 French work by the French physicians Etienne Pariset (1770-1847) and Andre Mazet (1793-1821),documenting the 1819 yellow fever epidemic in Cadiz,Spain |