Cholera morbus : its causes, prevention, and cure; with disquisitions on the contagious or non-contagious nature of this dreadful malady / by Sir Henry Halford [and others].

  • Halford Henry, Sir bart., 1766-1844.
Date:
1831
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    nut ntftkf iu nppcnnmr# in tli« fdutrrn CM»ts ef BukUihI ur Scutland in a tim« too frifhtt'ul to name. And the writer «f thU eannot in conacience abatain from mentioning, with due deferenee to the amiroe from which the iaotrurtioas of the a1iovr-ineut!otied Board emanate, that be is huinUy uf opinion, (hat it is a material nniiwion in them, that the labours uf the Board are not required to oomroenee till the disease has actual- ly made a landing, and taken effect in the country, without refrrenre to aurfa sidutary means as might hs had recourm to for repelling and barring it out as it were. ITiis has restrict- ed and rendered in a great meswure nugMory the steps that have been hitherto recommended, which tonsist weiviy in ths publicatUm of some papers descriptive ttf the steps advlsaUe to be taken for arrating the prngrass and eradicating the infec- tion when it shall appear ; and the rantingfstt good effects of tbme are also rendered abortive hy their being of a nature so coercive and compulsory, that they mn the risk of being fait, and perhaps resisted, as incusiipatibls with the liberties and properties of KnglUh an otf^ection expreoved by tht Btsuvl itself. Uestdesi, the psunphlet esataining the descrip- tion uf the preventive measures is too bulky fur ths gvacml (ircuiatioo which would be necssssry for giving it eifiKt by stoppiog and eradhating the dfatease; and the writer of this uiidsrstamU from bis eorrsspondetice with the Board that there is no intention of adapting immediately any further means. But tram the statement above made, such means seem shin luteiy nscesasry, and are here thrown into the compass of s single sheet, the fruits of the writer's studies adapted fur an early, speedy, and universal c.lrcuiatkm smoog the British ooss- munity, particularly in the sea-port towns ou the east coast of England and Scotland, which may be readily done by the quick methods of cotiveyance by sea and land now in use. In making these communications, particular attsntion ihrmid be psud to what may be described as the squalid part of the popubtion. For hs again asserts that sbooid this most ter-