The bubonic plague / by E. H. Hankin. With a preface by Professor Haffkine.

  • Ernest Hanbury Hankin
Date:
1899
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    be the best preventative of the panic by which it a> is so often accompanied. The present pamphlet is not an official pub- ‘ lication. I merely express my own opinions. I shall make no reference to what might or might not be done by Government on the occurrence of plague, but shall merely describe the disease, p and indicate what individuals may do to protect ot themselves from the risk that it presents. X ! It is sometimes believed that plague is due to kismet, and that one can no more protect one- self from plague than one can from an earthquake. The destruction of property in an earthquake is spoken of as kismet, because it is due to an un- avoidable accident. But I shall show in this pam- phlet that plague is not due to an unavoidably* accident, but to certain causes which can actuallj, )ri be avoided, and that the infection of plague is: flu actually avoided by the inhabitants of the Gurhwar id Hills, who owing to their understanding its-:0a nature are able to take precautions that actually dc: ;j] limit its spread. Who needing a dose of medicine: :■ would prefer to talk of kismet instead of curing, his indigestion ? Surely it would only be the most ignorant of men, to whom such a trouble would be an unavoidable accident, and who therefore vrould describe it as due to kismet / Similarly with plague, to the ignorant it appears as kismet, bu to the learned it is known to be due to cause that can be avoided and controlled. In seriou Hi i