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Alfred Russel Wallace

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVm. VACCINATION A DELUSION ITS PENAL ENFORCEMENT A CEIME. To-day, in all its dimpled bloom. The rosy darling crows with glee; To-morrow, in a darkened room, A pallid, wailing infant see, Whose every vein, from head to heel. Ferments with poison from my steel.--A. H. Hume. Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of assault whatever, under pretence of the public health; nor any the more against the body of a healthy infant.--Profettor F. W. Newman. L VACCINATION AND SMALL-POX. Among the greatest self-created scourges of civilized humanity are the group of zymotic diseases, or those which arise from infection, and are believed to be due to the agency of minute organisms which rapidly increase in bodies offering favorable conditions, and often cause death. Such diseases are: plague, small-pox, measles, whooping-cough, yellow fever, typhus and enteric fevers, scarlet fever and diphtheria, and cholera. The conditions which especially favor these diseases are foul air and water, decaying organic matter, overcrowding, and other unwholesome surroundings, whence they have been termed " filth diseases." The most terrible and fatal of these--the plague--prevails only where people live under the very worst sanitary conditions as regards ventilation, water supply, and general cleanliness. Till about 250 years ago it was as common in England as small-pox has been during the present century, but a very partial and limited advance in healthy conditions of life entirely abolished it, its place being to some extent taken by small-pox, cholera, and fevers. The exact mode by which all these diseases spread is not known; cholera, diphtheria, and enteric fever are believed to be communicated through the dejecta from the patient...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures. To get started finding The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVm. VACCINATION A DELUSION ITS PENAL ENFORCEMENT A CEIME. To-day, in all its dimpled bloom. The rosy darling crows with glee; To-morrow, in a darkened room, A pallid, wailing infant see, Whose every vein, from head to heel. Ferments with poison from my steel.--A. H. Hume. Against the body of a healthy man Parliament has no right of assault whatever, under pretence of the public health; nor any the more against the body of a healthy infant.--Profettor F. W. Newman. L VACCINATION AND SMALL-POX. Among the greatest self-created scourges of civilized humanity are the group of zymotic diseases, or those which arise from infection, and are believed to be due to the agency of minute organisms which rapidly increase in bodies offering favorable conditions, and often cause death. Such diseases are: plague, small-pox, measles, whooping-cough, yellow fever, typhus and enteric fevers, scarlet fever and diphtheria, and cholera. The conditions which especially favor these diseases are foul air and water, decaying organic matter, overcrowding, and other unwholesome surroundings, whence they have been termed " filth diseases." The most terrible and fatal of these--the plague--prevails only where people live under the very worst sanitary conditions as regards ventilation, water supply, and general cleanliness. Till about 250 years ago it was as common in England as small-pox has been during the present century, but a very partial and limited advance in healthy conditions of life entirely abolished it, its place being to some extent taken by small-pox, cholera, and fevers. The exact mode by which all these diseases spread is not known; cholera, diphtheria, and enteric fever are believed to be communicated through the dejecta from the patient...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures. To get started finding The Wonderful Century; Its Successes and Its Failures, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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