A letter to the Lord President of the Council, on the best means of preventing the extension of the pestilential disease recently arrived in the metropolis termed cholera-morbus, but more properly called pestilentia-mortalis, or, the mortal pestilence / by W. Hunt.

  • Hunt, W.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A letter to the Lord President of the Council, on the best means of preventing the extension of the pestilential disease recently arrived in the metropolis termed cholera-morbus, but more properly called pestilentia-mortalis, or, the mortal pestilence / by W. Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    preventing its recurrence, as well as of keeping the air free from decomposing matter. A free, healthy, and agreeable air may be preserved in houses, stimulating the lungs to perform their office, and receive the due and necessary portion of oxygen they require by the evaporation of acid, which will render inert the carbon expired from them, and reoxygenate the air. Other auxiliary remedies of prevention may be pre- pared ; but wherever the son of science treads, he is sure to meet with some legislative enactment, some relic of a barbarous age to restrain his ingenuity:— thus, if a regular professional man should discover even a cure for this destructive pestilence, and desire to keep it secret for a short period, with no other view than that of reaping the reward by its profit which he would be most justly entitled to, a clause in an Act of Parliament stares him in the face, and says, “ If you sell that as a secret remedy, without paying to the Government £2 for a licence, thou shalt be fined £50; and even then, if you sell it without a stamp thou shalt be fined £10and yet, has he not the same right to make a profit by his discovery as any noble or other legislator would have by the copyright of a
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