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FEVJEB, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS. 3
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f _MbTxr |@ consider rall ecupy y inquiry recognised the the most to following this as prominent _preventable group questions of place diseases . Among . and We state . propose For these the this the answers , therefore purpose Continued which , we to Fevers may shall limit
at 1 the st . present What are time the , be external given to , causes them : — of the Continued Fevers of , \
Britain ? 2 nd . Are the different diseases included under this head—viz .,
t sidered yphus , t as yp varieties hoid , gastric of , one and common simple fevers fever , , with produced others by —to the be same
condistinct causes , under from each slightl other y modified , and dependent conditions upon ; or different are they and specificall distinct y
causes ? 3 rd . To what extent , and in what way , can the causes which
tend to produce or foster fever be controlled or removed by _societj _^ ? The Causes of Fever . — -It may be remarked , in the first place ,
or this that other question the morbid point is at agencies not issue whether in greatl the efEuvia answer increase , malaria s which the , mortalit extreme have been y destitution from given fever to ,
, y —this is universally admitted—but whether they act as the predisposing or the reallexciting cause . Do they generate fever , or
do they only foster it y ? Are they its parents or nurses ? Must we look beyond them for its actually exciting cause ?
These questions have received various answers . In the first between place , sanitary filth and reformers feverasserted , seeing with the somewhat close connexion fierce vehemence existing : _,,,
that the former created , the latter , that if we would have the one _,, , we must have the other . That there , was a great deal of truth
inthis assertion no one doubted ; but observers were continually coming upon facts which tended to induce doubts as to the degree
and mode of the connexion thus insisted upon . Fever was found to be both present and absentcontrary to sanitary expectations .
, The horrors of the Neapolitan dungeons , withxmt flooring , draining , and ventilationwhere cleanliness or decency of the most rudimentary *
, kind was impossible—where every law of health was systematically set at defiance—were not found to have produced fever , _whiles
country and sea-port towns , with an air which seemed pure _enough to make the generation of fever impossible , were noticed as being *"
not infrequently subject to a fever epidemic . The consideration of these facts , in apparent discordance with sanitary theory , led to a
second answer being given . It was argued that the fever poison was rendered inert where the sanitary conditions were not such as
favoured its development ; but that no amount of overcrowding , deficiency of food and cleanliness , nor even exhalations from putrid
animal matter , could of themselves generate fever . ** By the sup-14 Practice * A comp of lete Physic statement . " of this argument may _Tbe seen in Dr . Watson ' s
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Fevjeb, In Its Social Aspects. 3
FEVJEB _, IN ITS SOCIAL ASPECTS . 3
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/3/
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