Letters on the Cholera Morbus.: Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever; name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those; labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through; the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium; of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons; and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this; disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the; community. — John Shaqi
Letters on the Cholera Morbus.: Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever; name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those; labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through; the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium; of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons; and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this; disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the; community.Gillkrest, J. (James)
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Letters on the Cholera Morbus.: Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever; name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those; labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through; the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium; of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons; and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this; disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the; community.
Gillkrest, J. (James)
Gastroenteritis
It was well and wisely said, that to know any-thing thoroughly, it must
be known in all its details; and, to gain the confidence of the public
in the belief of non-contagion in cholera, it is in vain that they are
informed that certain alleged facts, brought forward industriously
by contagionists, are quite groundless, unless proofs are given showing
this to be the case. The public must, in short, have those alleged
instances of contagion which have gained currency circumstantially
disproved, or they will still listen to a doctrine leading to the
disorganization of the community wherever it is acted upon. It is
solely upon this ground that these letters have any claim to attention.
Dr. James Johnson, of London, has, since my last letter, publicly
contradicted, with all the bluntness and energy of honest conviction,
the statement by Sir Gilbert Blane, Drs. Macmichael, Hawkins, &c., as to
the importation of the cholera into the Mauritius by the Topaze frigate;
but _evidence_ is what people want on these occasions, and, relative to
the case in question, probably the public will consider what is to be
found in my third and fourth letters, quite conclusive. Having again
mentioned the Mauritius, I cannot refrain from expressing my great
surprise that Mr. Kennedy, who has lately published on cholera, should
give, with the view of showing "the dread and confusion existing at the
time," a proclamation by General Darling, while he does not furnish a
word about the result of the proceedings instituted by that officer, as
detailed in my third letter, relative to the non-contagious nature of
the disease, a point of all others the most important to the public. As
to accounts regarding the confusion caused by the appearance of epidemic
cholera, we have had no lack of them in the public papers during many
months past, from quarters nearer home.
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