A letter to the right honorable F. Robinson, M.P. ... on the plague and contagion with reference to the quarantine laws : including the history of plague conveyed direct from the Levant to five European ports of the Mediterranean, within the last six years : and also a detailed account of the experiments made on the subject of contagion in plague, by Deidier, Samoilowitz, Desgenettes, Dr. Whyte, Dr. Valli, Dr. Maclean, and Mons. Rosenfeldt / by Augustus Bozzi Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A letter to the right honorable F. Robinson, M.P. ... on the plague and contagion with reference to the quarantine laws : including the history of plague conveyed direct from the Levant to five European ports of the Mediterranean, within the last six years : and also a detailed account of the experiments made on the subject of contagion in plague, by Deidier, Samoilowitz, Desgenettes, Dr. Whyte, Dr. Valli, Dr. Maclean, and Mons. Rosenfeldt / by Augustus Bozzi Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    quarantine laws, or even of checking their severity. In order to investigate this question more readily, and with a greater chance of being reciprocally understood, it will not be in- expedient to take our departure from some well defined data respecting the real mean- ing of words to be employed in the dis- cussion, or great confusion will arise. I shall therefore take the liberty of stating, thus early—though it may appear some- what pedantic—the real distinction between what is called contagion and any other mo- dification in the development of diseases; and in the next place, why the plague must be considered as contagious. This I do the more willingly, because during the debate, said to have taken place onSirJohn Jackson^s motion, the w^ords ^contagious,' 'infectious,'' and 'epidemic,' appear to have been in- discriminately applied. Misapplication of words has been* the source of all errors on this great and important question. A m.edi- cal man is anxious to account for the great prevalence of any particular disease, and he