A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman.

  • Bateman, Thomas, 1778-1821.
Date:
1818
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A succinct account of the contagious fever of this country, exemplified in the epidemic now prevailing in London; with the appropriate method of treatment as practised in the House of Recovery. To which are added observations on the nature and properties of contagion. Tending to correct the popular notions on this subject, and pointing out the means of prevention / By Thomas Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ring the autumnal heats. The propaga¬ tion, however, as well as the character of these diseases is chiefly influenced by causes of a moral nature; or at least by such circumstances as the habits and insti¬ tutions of man create; and which are there¬ fore much within his own control. Whence, probably, the various modifications of * ' p * ; m plague, sweating-sickness, pestilential fe¬ ver, &c. were occasioned, though originat¬ ing under similar physical conditions, in respect to season and food. The charac¬ ter of-an epidemic, therefore, is in some measure a test or index of the situation, and circumstances of the population among which it occurs : and consequently an in¬ structive lesson is contained in such re¬ cords, as they demonstrate the powerful influence of those minor improvements in civilized life, which have been gradually adopted for the purposes of delicacy and individual comfort, in lessening some of the most fatal calamities to which man¬ kind have been subject. • Independently of all other considera¬ tions, however, the fever which is now epi-