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A physician's memoranda. 177
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« When Lord Chief Justice Holt Was A You...
are more willing" to dwell on the mysterious and the _inconrprehensibleand to dive into the depths of another worldrather than
pursue , patiently and diligently the wonderful and beneficent , paths which the Creator has opened to us in the one to which we are
called for a brief term . If we follow the history of epidemic disease , a marvellous
labyrinth of human folly and ignorance is opened to us ; the same errors , the same arguments , the same ebullitions of feeling
cropping out at the time of the Athenian plague , during the black plague of the middle ages , and the cholera of our own days of
vaunted enlightenment . May I tell an anecdote that occurred to myself when a lad , in
illustration ? All the world knows that whenafter the Lacedaemonian warthe
p state lagu of e broke their out drains in Athen in s el , the attributed Athenians , the , instead fatal ep of idemic lookin to g poison to , the _,
cast into their wells , h sup y their y enemies the Peloponnesians . Modern science has shown that water is not unfrequently a medium of
conveying the seeds of disease ; but it was not science which prompted the aggressors on the occasion I am about to relate .
Some thirty years ago , I made a walking excursion in the North of Germwith a lad of my own age . "We had visited a country
gentleman any at a distance from any large town , and while there the cholera broke out at Rostock , a maritime city about ten miles off .
Our friend duly- endorsed our passport to the effect that we had not visited the pestilential spot since the occurrence of the cholera . At
the end of a long day ' s march , after leaving our host _, we found the town at which we intended to halt for the night , fortified with a
cholera-gate at a considerable distance from its walls . Of course we were detained , and our passports were sent to the Mayor for
considering circuit inspection of . the the His town lateness worshi in order p of regarded the to hour reach , us did the as not susp cholera require icious hosp characters us ital to make prob ; abl but the y ,
, out of consideration for his subordinates ; but graciously permitted us , dangerous as we were , to pass through the town . The cholera
hospital offered no attractions to us , so we dragged our weary limbs dence sleepy to The the of landlady nearest next a relation day village , we was of gained to , where brin fellow such g , us after -traveller accommodation to a another good . The deal country weather as of the parley house p was lace ing , hot afforded the with ; resi and a - .
after a march of a goodl my y number of miles we reached a village , footfound sionall sore and y one met thirst of those with y , not " in wells far country from still the prevailing districts goal of of on our Eng the day land Continent ' s journey , consisting , . and We occa of hero a -
from heavil square which y hol wei e g , a hted surrounded bucket at one is end by , a and roug provided h at b the alustrade other with . , with We a pole lads a long and sat a beam down hook , suspended ,
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A Physician's Memoranda. 177
A physician ' s _memoranda . 177
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/33/
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