Cholera : how to prevent and resist it / by Max von Pettenkofer.

  • Max Joseph von Pettenkofer
Date:
1875
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Credit: Cholera : how to prevent and resist it / by Max von Pettenkofer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only our personal and national iüterests, but, it may be said without exaggeration, it concerns the wliole human race. It provides itself a liome in every clime, alike on the burning plains of India, in the icy North, and in the temperate regions of Europe. Each time that it has visited Europe, it has shown a greater reluctance to depart. How long its present Visitation, which England has hitherto escaped, and which may be said to date from 1865, will last, no man knows. It has even been asserted, witli some plausibility, that it shows a strong ten- dency to abandon its birthplace in the low river-lands of North- East India, and to establish itself as a resident in countries nearer to Europe. That the study of the natural history of this dread disease (the surest introduction to its successful treatment) would be greatly advanced, and our means of defence against its ravages increased, by the non-medical world taking an active interest in it, I am fully persuaded. Investigations as to its mode of pro- pagation, its dependence on inflnences connected with the soil and the atmospliere, its portability, contagiousness, etc., require no previous medical training; and any disadvantages which mifdit result from want of medical knowledsre would be rnore tlian counterbalanced by the fact that the conclusions would be arrived at more free from prejudice than is often the case with medical men, who can scarcely avokl entering upon such observations witli their mind somewhat biassed by tlieir early training. For this reason I thouglit it more advantageous to bring out a translation of a populär exposition of the leading points of Prof, von Pettenkofer’s views on Cholera, ratlier than of one of his numerous works* on the subject wliicli are more * Among these may be mentioned— Ueber die Verbreitungsart der Cholera, Zeitschrift für Biologie, Band I., Heft 3 and 4, Munich, 18G5. Die sächsischen Cholera-Epidemien des Jahres 1865 ; Zeitschr. für Biologie, Band II., Heft 1, Munich, 1806. Die Immunität von Lyon gegen Cholera, und das Vorkommen der Cholera auf Seeschiffen, Zeitschr. für Biologie, Band IV., Heft 4, Munich, 1868. Boden und Grund wasser in ihren Beziehungen zu Cholera und Typhus, Seperat-Abdruck aus der Zeitschr. f. Biologie, Munich, 1869. Fünf Fragen ueber Cholera, Munich.
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