On the poisons of the spreading diseases : their nature and mode of distribution : a lecture, delivered before the Congress on the Sewage Question, held at Leamington, on Tuesday, Oct. 25th, 1866 / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

  • Richardson, Sir Benjamin Ward, (1828-1897)
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1867
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Credit: On the poisons of the spreading diseases : their nature and mode of distribution : a lecture, delivered before the Congress on the Sewage Question, held at Leamington, on Tuesday, Oct. 25th, 1866 / by Benjamin W. Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    health, perhaps from habit; perhaps, because I think that, after all, national health is national wealth; and, lastly, because,—while I very much admire labours which have for their object the utilization of sewage,—I know that Nature is the master of all, and that the man who is endeavouring to utilize sewage, under the notion that useful matter must otherwise necessarily be lost, is labouring under a very serious delusion. Nature ordains that nothing ever can be lost. If we cannot give sewage to the land, the sea will have it, and indirectly the fish will have it, and we may have the fish: for whatever man may do, he cannot disturb the motion of the earth, nor change its balance a single grain. Nature, Almighty conservator! from age to age ever keeps up a continuous supply for demand ; and from the very womb of death spring, in perpetual line, the most perfect forms of life. THE END.
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