This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE GERM THEORIES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The "pestilence that walketh in darkness" has from the earliest times affected so profoundly not only the happiness of families, bat the wealth of nations, and even the course of civilisation, that it may be deemed a fit subject to be brought before a non ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE GERM THEORIES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. The "pestilence that walketh in darkness" has from the earliest times affected so profoundly not only the happiness of families, bat the wealth of nations, and even the course of civilisation, that it may be deemed a fit subject to be brought before a non-medical Society. I hope that the bearing of such inflictions on human affairs may be also considered of a sufficiently general nature to allow its being taken as the topic of the Opening Address of the Session. When we consider the awful mortality of the great epidemics recorded in history--the Black Death of the fourteenth century having, for example, swept off one-quarter of the population of the old world in four years--and the almost total impotence of medicine for direct cure, we may indeed consider this a question more for statesmen and governing bodies than for physicians. Nevertheless, it is necessary that the efforts of the former should be guided by such knowledge of the natnre and causes of these diseases as the science of the day can afford. Nor is such knowledge less to be desired for the people in general in order to counteract the baneful effects of ignorance and prejudice. It is a fact that, from the time of Thucydides down to the outbreak of the cholera in our own day, in all severe epidemics a false suspicion has prevailed that the wells or provisions were poisoned by supposed public enemies. To this groundless suspicion thousands of lives have been sacrificed, and it was the cause of the fearful persecution of the Jews in the fourteenth century. The simple knowledge of the fact of the universal prevalence of this suspicion, and, still more, the knowledge which medical science can now give with A certainty that no such...
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