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    Vol. XL March 2, 1863. No. 61.

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    L-FEVEE, IN ITS SOCIAL, ASPECTS.

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    I The

    I THE

    / ENGLISH WOMAN ' S JOURNAL .

    PUBLISHED MONTHLY .

    Vol. Xl March 2, 1863. No. 61.

    Vol . XL March 2 , 1863 . No . 61 .

    L-Fevee, In Its Social, Aspects.

    L-FEVEE _, IN ITS SOCIAL , ASPECTS .

    » ^ Between The Subject Medical Of Fever...

    » _^ between The subject medical of Fever and social may science be said . - to On lie the upon one the hand border it affords -land

    to the physician , pathologist , and chemist , problems of , unusual Nemesis interest , — on a the im- other visage , d it " presents Bedoneb to yasyoudid society " the pursuin aspect g of with a

    inevitable retribution gr every infraction of certain , fixed but illunderstood and half-acknowledged laws . The medical philosopher

    studies it as a fact which is ; the social philosopher , as one which the ought latter not appropriates to be . The the former knowled studies ge the thus laws gained of its for development the purpose ;

    , of uprooting it . To the former , the study of its etiology — the causes which produce and foster it—is one point among many of

    logy equal or al mos perior t the i mpor o t f wh at he it cares s hist t o y inve ; to sti the gate latter . He its is etio con-

    tent to leave all else in professional hands , feeling that with fever , more , perhaps , than with anything else , to know the cause is to

    know the cure . The study of the external causes of all disease practical belongs as dut much of to lessening society as or to removing the medical those profess causes ion , while devolve the s

    y almost solely on society . The special business of the . physician is to curerather than to preventdiseaseand the constant exercise

    of his faculties , in this direction , does not , leave much time or power to contend with its external causes . It isperhapsnot

    uninstructive to remember that , though they have lib , erally responded , to it , the idea of sanitary reform , or the removal of those influences

    which artificially curtail human life , did not originate with the medical profession . The value of the assistance they have it in

    chemical their power and to p g h ive ysiolog as witnesses ical , cannot , always well at be hand over , of -rated scientific ; but truth the ,

    work itself—the removal of those external influences—must be accomplished through the co-operative energy and intelligence of

    many There sections are some of societ initial y . views connected with this subject upon

    which it is now needless to dwell at any length , and which may be assumed to be shared by almost every one of ordinary intelligence .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/1/