Cholera : the laws of its occurrence, non-occurrence and its nature / by C. Spinzig.

  • Spinzig, C. (Carl)
Date:
1877
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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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    way of rotation cholera has marked Us course, in the same manner, and pursuant, to the same law, as is pointed 011 by Dove for the motion and rotation of storms. Thus it proves to be undisputabty true, and the law is sweepingly commanding, that cholera only then and there occurs where essential meteorological influences condition either a temporary outbreak, or an uninterrupted existence. Prejudiced and preconceived minds n ay echo from these utterances the impression as if it was here intended to convey the idea that the “cholera producing agency,” probably is suspended in the atmosphere, carried by the winds, and precipitated at favorable localities. Cer- tainly a greater error could not be entertained, and a more decided misrepresentation of the comprehensible laws, essential to the pathogeny of cholera, could not be com- mitted. Since having endeavored to indicate the intimate connection of the operations of the fundamental laws of nature with the occurrence of cholera, and alluded, in but a general sense, to their incidental—however absolute— responses, no other result could be produced or to follow, than a diametrical antagonism to the “specific infection theory.” Nevertheless efforts are made over and over again by infectionists, with an activeness symbolized by* the inmates of the beehive, to force their theory into uni- versal acceptance,, although evidently done so, by many of them,.against their better convictions, and knowingly in violation of approved laws of nature. Verily, the notions entertained of the fictitious entity: the “specific cholera poison”—said to be provided with portability, transmissi- bibty, and with such potency as to resist the reactions of tne laws of nature, to which otherwise everything else is subjected, solicit condolatory sympathy. Adverting now to the examination of the various data m detail, upon which the theory dwells, advocated in this essay there it cannot fail to be noticed that to meteorol- ogical influences the virtue is ascribed to be the urinciual generators of cholera, pursuant to their active part per- formed m morphology of the (here the sole object of inter- B8t) orgamc world. Owing to the physical constitution or tr.msmutatlon (metrihaleari processes) which are manifested $ org«lTilc structure under coercive influences suprinl pnioThidif p.he,nc!lne.Tja or processes occur sustaining the Fmui d t?d by tlle general analysis above submitted Further may be brought to view that all the