Cholera non-contagious, and the absurdity of quarantine restrictions demonstrated / by Edwin Hearne.

  • Hearne, Edwin.
Date:
1866
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Credit: Cholera non-contagious, and the absurdity of quarantine restrictions demonstrated / by Edwin Hearne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tiffiinty of its cause for low, clamp, and marshy situations; if it is observed especially along the routes of inland trade, this may be owing to the circimistances, that the largest and most con- spicuous towns, which it is apt to select, are upon these routes, while remote spots which it also visits are less open to observation ; if it passes from an infected part to other transmarine parts between which there is commercial intercourse, the fact could scarcely be otherwise if it travel at all, so intimately are all parts of the world associated in the meshes of a universal traffic ; if its arrival is often preceded by that of a ship, or of travellers from an infected place, this may well be the result of accident, and very often no such connection can be traced, loJiile intercourse of the kind is constantly carried on without the conveyance of the disease ; and, finally if it sometimes attack one person after another, instead of all simultaneously, this is nothing more than often occurs in the operation of morbid causes confessedly non-contagious, and is not always true of Cholera, which occasionally prostrates mvdtitudes at one blow. The case made out by contagionists, therefore, fails of adequate proof.’’ “ There are circumstances, moreover, in the course of Cholera, which cannot be explained upon their