Category: History - Modern (1750+)
PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN, “THE FATHER OF SANITARY REFORM,” MEMBER OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1848–1854, AUTHOR OF “THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH;” “THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT,” &C., &C.
PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL, CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN, “THE FATHER OF SANITARY REFORM,” MEMBER OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 18...
2. Part 210. Lastly, Epidemics resemble each other in being produced by the same causes. The whole tenor of experience shows that whatever produces an especial liability to one epidemic,...
3. Part 3This we know; all beyond this is conjecture, but as to the most probable of these conjectures, some who have thought on this subject believe that the preponderance of evidence j...
4. Part 4There were no fresh vegetables. As late as the 18th century salads were sent from Holland for the table of Queen Caroline. Sir John Pringle, writing in the middle of the last ce...
5. Part 5In number they exceed one million and a half. Taking into account the accessory occupations, indeed, no fewer than one million two hundred thousand are employed on one single ma...
6. Part 6The object of quarantine is to prevent the introduction of epidemic diseases from one country into another, and its regulations are based on the assumption of the contagiousness...
7. Part 7If it be true that epidemic diseases, such, for example, as influenza and cholera, traverse the globe in determinate courses or zones, and often spread from country to country,...
8. Part 8On the outbreak of the pestilence in the town, the medical officers of the garrison, with the sanction and assistance of their superior officers, exerted themselves with great p...
9. Part 9“It appears then, that besides an unusual number sleeping in the fore-cockpit, some of them at least had been exposed to a morbific miasma, exhaled from a festering mass of filt...
10. Part 10It is most material to a right understanding of this whole subject to observe, that a Yellow Fever Epidemic had broken out at this very time in an adjoining island, St Jago. It...
11. Part 11“I have observed that Caffiero added to his original testimony so much as to give to it a new character altogether; I now observe that six days after Caffiero’s amended testimon...