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

  • Ernest Hanbury Hankin
Date:
1899
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Credit: The bubonic plague / by E. H. Hankin. With a preface by Professor Haffkine. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    ( *' ) inoculation. The author of the tract has sc ceeded in describing the results of this measu in a manner which will be plain to the meant intellect. He has avoided a theoretical disci sion of the subject, but has represented it $ that practical form in which it concerns t public. IB The tract may attract criticism by what u has omitted. The author’s wish has been v avoid, so far as possible, matters about whii doubt or discussion may arise. Theories as^ w the propagation of the plague, which, howeu •probable, may be regarded as not definite established, have been scrupulously exclud His object has been to write a pamphlet circulation of which may tend to dimim m unreasonable opposition to what are genera n admitted to be necessary or advisable measuir Scarcely any other remarks are called with regard to a book by a writer whose nsa ] and work is so well known in every town) India. (( W. M. HAFFKINE: a[ r . ... , - • - Bombay: | The Afth January 1899. J U;