The contagion of Asiatic cholera, deduced from its recent progress, its early history, and its pathological correlations / by Edward Oke Spooner.

  • Spooner Edward Oke.
Date:
1849
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    of the steam engine render llieni intolerable and less effective liian in the earlier states of society, let the Government abolish quarantine with its pyes open, and with a full recognition of the risks we are to run. These questions ought not to weigh one feather in the scale when we enter upon the specific inquiry as to the contagiousness of any disease. It may be true that quarantine laws are now no longer practicable,and yet the plague and the cholera, and the yellow ferer, may be infectious. We do not wish to mix up the abolition of the quarantine system with the strictly medical enquiry, the one belongs to the sanitary police of nations, the other involves pure medical truth. Let not, however, the quarantine laws be abolished on a fictitious plea, and under false pretences. If commercial reasons are of sufficient importance to induce a great commercial people to suspend or abrogate these laws, let those reasorjs rest on their proper basis. We must not bend medical truth to meet the demands of modern society. On the quaran- tine system I have now no purpose to enter : our present enquiry is limited to the contagion of pestilential cholera; neither do I wish to mix it up with those sanitary improvements which experience has taught to be so essential to the well-being of the community. Good drainage, ample space, fresh air, a copious supply of pure water, and the removal of all filth and impurity, are valuable and necessary conditions for the healthy physical, and moral development of man; they are sacred projects which I would not for a moment interfere with or oppose; they hare an important influence on the health of man, and the course of all