Evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : deduced from the phaenomena of the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of Spain, and the cholera morbus of Asia.

  • Maclean, Charles, active 1788-1824.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : deduced from the phaenomena of the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of Spain, and the cholera morbus of Asia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PREFACE. XXVI! the restoration of despotism in that unhappy country. Had a transient display, rather than lasting effect, been my object, the proceedings upon that occasion would have been published much sooner: for the delay, I trust, ample compensation is made by the addition of materials which would not otherwise have been obtained. In treating of questions, in their nature essentially controversial, T have not committed the inconsistency of seeking wholly to avoid controversy. But, excepting where ridicule was more befitting the subject, which not un- frequently happened, I have endeavoured strictly to adhere to induction of experiment, the only sure method of investigation, as taught by that immortal man, who from the gloom Of cloister'd monks, and jargon-teaching schools, Led forth the true philosophy. Without conceiving myself at all bound to notice trivial opposition, I have held it as a maxim, in consideration of the great import- ance of the subject, that I ought not to decline refuting or explaining whatever objections to my principles might appear to be either novel, or pertinent, or calculated to impose. But it is remarkable, so completely had my previous