Evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : deduced from the phaenomena of the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of Spain, and the cholera morbus of Asia.

  • Charles Maclean
Date:
1824
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Credit: Evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : deduced from the phaenomena of the plague of the Levant, the yellow fever of Spain, and the cholera morbus of Asia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    merce, could, in a commercial country, be re- garded as an argument against seeking the abolition of otherwise pernicious establishments, or a strict inquiry into their operation and effects, even if their merits were only deemed doubtful. For my part, far from thinking it culpable to have availed myself of the support of commerce, in combating the ridiculous but veiy pernicious dogmas of the medical schools, as applied to comnmnities en masse, I am very free to confess that I have, upon this occasion, diligently sought to range every interest, over which I could exercise the smallest influence, on the side of truth ; persuaded that it is by the union of public interest with public principle, the mischiefs occasioned by private interest, prejudice, ignorance, or self-love, in any depart- ment, can be most effectually obviated or removed. PVom the fact, that, during the year which has just terminated (1823), independently of Scotland and Ireland, about seven hundred ships have been exposed to the ordeal of quarantine in the ports of England only; as well as from the following alphabetical list of places, from whence shipping are now, from the four quarters of the globe, subjected to that ordeal, in the quarantine stations of this coun- try ; some slight general idea may be formed.