The common sense of cholera / by a practical practitioner.

  • James Hutchison Stirling
Date:
1854
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    probably operate tlieir benefit by entering into a more fixed combination with other bodies previously less fixed. An objection, too, may be raised on the fact, that it is not always the most fixed bodies that j are found to be the most congenial to digestion. Objections, in fact, are numberless, and may even grow to such witticisms as, That we should extin- guish our fires, hold in horror the rose, cover up our - stringed instruments, and lay our bells iu straw. But, perhaps, it is sufficient to remark that, for the process of digestion, fixity must have its limits; that | mechanical vibration is not chemical decomposition;;] and that many of the items capable of being ob- jected, are precisely the necessary vital conditions- of sundry organs, as, warmth to the skin and em- | ployment to the senses. If, then, we have added; anything to the general stock of distinct conceptions; if we have thrown any light on the method and rationale of our industry respecting the suppression. of the materials of cholera, we shall not be sorry for what we have written. We pass on to remark that, on this head, ourr industry is susceptible of a twofold distinction: 1, That of the individual; 2, That of the society. As regards the individual, he has, of course, simply to put in practice the two general rules ob- tained. He seeks health within and wholesomeness j without. He avails himself of sanitary mea for the one, and of sanatory for the other, adopts all that tends to fix, and he discards all that:. tends to unfix, the elements of which he is com- I