Quarantine and the plague: being a summary of the report on these subjects, recently addressed to the Royal Academy of Medicine in France / [by R.C. Prus]; with introductory observations, extracts from Parliamentary correspondence, and notes.

  • Milroy, Gavin, 1805-1886.
Date:
1846
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Credit: Quarantine and the plague: being a summary of the report on these subjects, recently addressed to the Royal Academy of Medicine in France / [by R.C. Prus]; with introductory observations, extracts from Parliamentary correspondence, and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. The Report, contained in the following pages, appeared in the last Number of the Medico-Chirurgical Review. But as the subject of the Qua¬ rantine Laws will, in all probability, be brought before the notice of the Legislature in the course of the ensuing Session of Parliament, Dr. Bowring having announced his intentions to that effect, it has occurred to me that the interesting and, on most occasions, very conclusive facts and reasonings adduced by the French Commission should be made as public as possible. To render them intelligible to all, and in the hope of disen¬ tangling the subject from many of the perplexities which have hitherto surrounded it, I have prefixed some introductory remarks on the proper meaning of such words as Contagion, Infection, Endemic, Epidemic, $c. The Extracts from the Parliamentary Correspondence, printed in 1842 and in the course of the present year, will be found to contain much valuable information. G. M. 30, Fitzroy Square, October, 184G.