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178 a physician's memoranda.
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« When Lord Chief Justice Holt Was A You...
on the balustrade and were rinsing * out our flasks and refilling _iliem _froni the wellwhen we saw a small army of labourersarraedwith
brooms and pi , tchforks , issue from the high gate of the manor , -house , headed by a redoubtable Bailiff . We were _siurrounded before we had
any suspicion that we were the hostile party , and were , without any further evidenceassumed to be guilty of putting the cholera into the
well . " I shall inarch , you off to the blackhole , youngsters , " growled our antagonist ; and resistance of course would have been useless
against such fearful odds . Unfortunately , perhaps , for the interest of the anecdote , we
escaped such or any ignominious treatment ; for when my friend let out that we were bound to the neighboring country house , the
opposing general thought discretion the better part of valor . So firmly , however , were the people of the place convincedof the
• danger they incurred by leaving * the well as it was , that , as we _^ were subsequently informed , they had it pumped and cleaned out , to
avoid the possibility of its becoming the focus of cholera . The recurrence of such foibles at intervals of two thousand
y error ears , s and hows would the pertinacity be indeed discourag of the human ing to mind the earnest in cling worker ing * to
were ; there not adequate proof that , although the wave of civiliza- , tion at times recedethe general movement is in advanceand
may , , that the world is not retrograding . In few things is the determination of mankind to attribute effects
to wrong causes more frequently manifested than in respect to diseasebecause they are unwilling- to confess to themselves or
others , the close connexion that exists between mental and moral obliquity and the painful results which are manifested in disease
and death . We may laugh at the folly of a set of boors who believe that
cholera will be introduced into their village by a couple of healthy wayfarers who may spill some of the contents of a drinking-flask
into their well ; but if we consider the daily neglect of sanitary laws , the truth of which has been irrefragably demonstrated , by the hiher and highest classes of the realmwe may well doubt
our rig g ht to indulge in such ridicule . , Intermittent feveror hasas we said abovebeen nearly
banished from this , country ague ; , the , plague has long since , ceased to minimum appear in Great but to Britain a minus ; small bthe -pox preventive has been measures reduced , not that to are a
known to , —but not yet app , lied y by—every one . Other instances might be given , demonstrating the real power we possess over
disease . But what shall we say about typhus and typhoid fever ? Here we have two diseases distinct in character though resembling one another in pointsthe causes of which have been traced out
¦ with most log many ical sequence , to a neglect of those laws which the
philosophical and religious mind _attributes to an . all-wise God ; while
178 A Physician's Memoranda.
178 a physician ' s memoranda _.
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 178, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/34/
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