An inquiry into the laws of epidemics : with remarks on the plans lately proposed for exterminating the small-pox / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1809
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    CONTENTS. ✓ i INTRODUCTION*. I The Author’s Apology for so long omitting to offer his Opinion to the Public.—The Subject not sufficiently un- derstood without a Knowledge of the Laws of certain Dis- eases.—Restrictions on Small-Pox Inoculation, not objected to as inconsistent with Civil Liberty.—The supposed Exter- mination of Leprosy, Plague and Sweating Sickness no Proof that Small-Pox may be exterminated.—The Plague subsided, not by any Human Contrivance, but by an Alter- ation in the Constitution of the Air.—Inquiries concerning the Means of Exterminating Small-Pox and every other Epidemic highly praise-worthy.—Distinction between En- demics and Epidemics. ’ ]—() Chap. I. Of Epidemics, the contagious Proper Ip of which is not ascertained. — On this Question Sydenham and Cleghorn differ in their Theories from Laws at this Time well established.—Jail Fever not contagious.—But the Atmo- sphere of the crowded Sick infectious. 10—13 Ciiap. II. Of the Manner in which different Epide- mics supersede each other.—By Attention to these Laws, we discover the Souice of Sydenham’s and Cloghorn’s Error.— We see also the Difficulty of ascertaining whether Plague and Yellow Fever are contagious ; the probability that they are not. No Disease contagious unless a diseased Subject is proved to have affected others in a healthy District, and that those thus affected have affected others in a similar Manner. ’ 15—19 I