The arrest and prevention of cholera : being a guide to the antiseptic treatment, with new observations on causation / by Arthur Ernest Sansom.

  • Arthur Ernest Sansom
Date:
1866
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Credit: The arrest and prevention of cholera : being a guide to the antiseptic treatment, with new observations on causation / by Arthur Ernest Sansom. 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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    Not only the foregoing considerations but the daily teachings of facts inculcate the lesson that those communities best off as regards sani- tary arrangements and of the highest standard of physical health are the least likely to suffer from the ravages of cholera. It is in the crowded houses of the ill-fed poor, that the disease spreads with such frightful rapidity and fatality. The best means of resisting the in- vasion of cholera is that which tends to improve the sanitary arrangements of the State, the surroundings and the physique of the poor. “ Si vis pacem para bellum.” This lesson has been taught long ago. When the cholera appeared before, the eyes of the public were opened to the filth and abominations which were abroad ; much was done to induce a better system ; there was a great deal of energy, but, alas ! there was a great deal of sleep too. Men of able and energetic minds, such as Charles Dickens and the writers in Household Words, and men of active benevolence like George Peabody have done much by precept and example: but it only needs a g] ance at the frequent paragraphs in the medical papers of these days and es- pecially at the admirable reports on London
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