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I
THE COMMON NATURE
 
OF
 
EPIDEMICS
 
 AND THEIR RELATION TO CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION.
ALSO REMARKS ON
CONTAGION AND QUARANTINE.
FROM WRITINGS AND OFFICIAL REPORTS
BY
SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D.,
PHYSICIAN TO THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL,
CONSULTING PHYSICIAN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE SKIN,
“THE FATHER OF SANITARY REFORM,”
MEMBER OF THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1848–1854,
AUTHOR OF
“THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH;” “THE DIVINE GOVERNMENT,” &C., &C.
EDITED BY
T. BAKER, Esq.,
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW, AUTHOR OF
“THE LAWS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SANITARY, MEDICAL, PROTECTIVE;”
“THE LAWS RELATING TO BURIALS,” &C., &C.
PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
1866.
III
INTRODUCTION.
The recent very serious outbreak of Epidemic disease among thecattle in England may not unreasonably induce the fear that a humanEpidemic is approaching. Cholera has prevailed in Paris and severalother places on the Continent during the late autumn, and it is wellknown that the former visitations of that terrible disease in this countryhave appeared the year following similar attacks abroad. Moreover,human epidemics in numerous instances have been preceded or accompaniedby extensive murrain among cattle.[1]
1.  See pp. 7, 65, 110.
Never was a country guided through the perils of an Epidemic withgreater wisdom and energy than Great Britain during the Cholera of1848–9. The master spirit on that occasion was Dr Southwood Smith.Long previous to that time this great man had had a more extendedexperience of the nature, causes, and treatment of Zymotic diseases thanperhaps any physician before or since. He had made them his specialstudy, and applied the great powers of his clear, reasoning, and philosophicmind, to the discovery of their causes, and the best means of arrestingtheir progress.
Whilst occupying the post of responsibility as the chief medicaladviser of the nation in his capacity of Medical Member of the GeneralBoard of Health, Dr Southwood Smith left behind him a set of                        
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