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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)

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Gillkrest, J. (James)

Gillkrest, J. (James)

Gastroenteritis

Having already published two letters on this last part of my subject,
I need not here take up your time in recapitulating their contents, but
proceed to the consideration of some remaining points of the enquiry;
which I find I have either overlooked, or not been so explicit in
illustration, as I otherwise might, had I been addressing a body of
professional men, instead of the community where I live, with the view
of _disabusing_ their minds from the effects of irrational panic, and
opening their eyes to what I deemed true measures of preservation
against the impending disease; and here I may as well add that when I
wrote in a newspaper and adopted the style suited to such a channel of
communication, I knew none so likely to attract the attention of those
influential men, who might possess the power and the will, when
disabused of prejudice, to enforce proper laws, instead of running the
course that had already been imposed upon them, by men interested in the
upholding of our quarantine establishments, or by prejudiced, however
well meaning, Boards of Health.

In looking over those letters, I find that the points most open to
dispute are the course of the disease throughout the Indian peninsula,
and its progress to the frontiers of Russia; as well as its supposed
infectious nature, and mode of propagation by human intercourse. In
regard to the first, there is no contagionist however avowed and
uncompromising, who does not admit that this erratic disease did not
often wander from its straight line when the most promising fields lay
directly before it; or stop short most unaccountably in its progress,
when the richest harvest of victims seemed actually within its
jaws--that its course was circuitous when, according to the laws of
contagion, it ought to have been straight,--that it refused its prey
at one time, and returned to it at another, in a manner that showed its
progress was governed by laws which we could neither understand nor
controul; and if we search the reports of contagionist writers, we
shall find fully as much, and as strong evidence of its progress being
independent of human intercourse, as of its being propagated and
governed by the laws of contagion.[28]

[Footnote 28: Vide Orton, Kennedy, &c.]

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