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

  • Hearne, Edwin.
Date:
1866
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    posterous do they appear to many minds, that they seem hardly Avorthy of refutation, until some tangible and practical grievances arise as the con- sequence of their neglect. In some such way, Avith- out advancing arguments or facts, capable of being defended, some of the rising generation of medi- cal men seem to tacitly adopt the contagion theory as applicable to Cholera, and non-medical papers, for Avant of knoAvledge, unwittingly pro- pagate the same. The Daily Telegraph speaks of “ the ghastly visitor hovering about oin* coasts all last autumn, and actually effecting a landing at Southampton,” and then praises the loeal authori- ties for the extraordinary steps they have taken, but cannot ffnish Avithout again displaying ignorance, as well as execrable taste, in sneering at the doctors. The doctors, Ave perceive, are iioav going help- lessly back to Calomel; Avhile the ffnal remedy with the Hindoos is to Avalk in procession to the temples of the Goddess Durga ” ! ! Nothing better could have been expected from a paper Avhich subsists partly by giving support to the most indecent forms of quackery, Avhich did its best to perpetuate the atrocities connected with the black man’s bondage in America, and AAdiich has not shrunk from giving countenance to the aboini- nations so recently perpetrated in Jamaica.