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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    I published some of my views on Cholera many years ago when I ventured to diverge some- what fi-om the beaten track, and I should not have again written .on the subject did I not regard the necessity of doing so as a positive duty. The local authorities are now acting in a direc- tion calculated to aggravate the evil by doing their best to brand the disease as contagious^ and unfor- tunately they have the thoughtless support of some of the daily papers in extending, and intensifying, the panic which must be the certain result of this lamentable mistake, against which I have entered an unqualified protest in the succeeding pages, and adduced such arguments in support thereof as I conceive are calculated to command the attention, and convince the minds, of those who are free to form an unbiassed judgment. Southampton, May VJth., 1866.