Statements relative to the present prevalence of epidemic fever among the poorer classes of Glasgow : together with some suggestions, both for affording more adequate assistance to the sick, and for checking the farther progress of the contagion : in a letter addressed to the Honourable, the Lord Provost of Glasgow / by Richard Millar, M.D.

  • Millar, Richard, active 1818-1833.
Date:
1818
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    must be a competent judge, how far they have been widely enough enforced, so as to promise a termination to the evil. Such, my Lord, are some of the measures to be resorted to, if we mean, effectually, to resist the present prevalence of Typhus in Glasgow. They ought to commence without the least delay. The pest is continually increasing, and what lengths it may reach, unless plans of prevention be adopt- ed, it is impossible to foresee.—I may advert here, to a question which has, very frequently, been put to me, whether the present contagion be like- ly to decline, or, spontaneously, to wear itself outj whether, by some fortunate change of weather, certain processes may not be set i ^, of power to restore our atmosphere to its former salubrity? These are difficult queries; nor can I pretend to answer them with positiveness. Unwilling as I am, however, to deny altogether, the potent in- fluences attributed, by many respectable authors, to the air, as well as various relative positions of the Sun, and Moon, over febrile diseases, yet may I mention one fact constantly staring us in the face, concerning our own Epidemic, which, I think, must always render our fears, on the pre- sent occasion, much greater than our hopes. It