Epidemics examined and explained: or, living germs proved by analogy to be a source of disease / [John Grove].

  • Grove, John, 1815-1895
Date:
1850
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Credit: Epidemics examined and explained: or, living germs proved by analogy to be a source of disease / [John Grove]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    v1 brought death :—that his subsequent errors should hasten its approaches is not to be marvelled at. The undetected murderer, though he may escape the punishment human justice would inflict upon him for his delinquency, suffers a penalty in the tor- tures of conscience, infinitely more horrify- ing than the most ignominious death. The law of nature is triumphant. | No less certain, though after a different manner, are the consequences of minor forms of disobedience. It is so ordained, that certain diseases shall arise, under peculiar conditions, which may have been brought about by a train of causes, easily imagined, and difficult to be explained, but all having their origin in the vices and errors of man in his moral and social relations. If man neglects the cultivation of the ground ; with rank vegetation, the germs of fever will invisibly grow and multiply ; if he harbours that which is rotten and corrupt, he is himself consumed by those agents de- stined to remove the rottenness and cor- ruption ; it is a part of the law of nature that there should be active and energetic agents for this purpose. The seeds of disease, like the seeds of plants, may be shewn to have
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