The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].
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- Date:
- 1832
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Credit: The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE I'll YSIC/AN. dreadful strciift'lli he scatlered Ijy the winds over tlie wide Alhuilic sea and losl there, or driven to the icy re-^ioiis of the Nortli l>ole wliere there are no men to be destroyed, and heard of no more. i?nt ah tiiis, wliieli, wiliioul the steady exertion of onr connnon sense, wonid Ije little better than a foolish or romantic dream— must be accomplished by the employment of whatever knowledge we ])ossess, and whatever care and caution we can emj)loy. There is no greater enemy of the cholera than cleanliness. If it were not for dirt and neg-lect, it is almcst a question whether it would ever have found a substantial footing any where. It never goes first into cleanly hoases ; but creeps about the narrow streets, the confined and dirty allies, the damp cellars and the crowded garret.s where poverty and wretchedness have taken u\) their abode i)efore. There it finds a home, and becomes stronger and bolder; and after destroying its hundreds, it spreads forth into the air of a whole city, and triumphs over its thousands. The care of the charitable pei-sons who never forget the poor is extended not only to their diet, but to the cleanliness of their habitations. If the poor will only give them credit for good intentions, and not object to what they advise, they will be greatly the gainers. But it is not the miserably poor who will read the Working-Mans Companion. It is addressed to tho.se who do not depend on cha- rity, but on their own honest industry. Among these, however, there are some avIio, although](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298129_0172.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
