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The Common Nature of Epidemics, and their relation to climate and civilization

Chapter 1: THE COMMON NATURE OF EPIDEMICS AND THEIR RELATION TO CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION.
By Southwood Smith
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The text analyzes epidemics as a class of fevers linked to environmental and social conditions rather than exclusively to contagion, arguing that factors such as foul air, overcrowding, climate, and animal murrains contribute to their onset, periodicity, and meteorological associations. It reviews historical patterns, critiques quarantine and contagion theories with case examinations, and advocates sanitary measures, public-health legislation, and ship regulation as primary protections. The work combines clinical observation, official reports, and lectures to recommend practical reforms and documents sanitary projects and experience to show how epidemic risk can be mitigated through improved hygiene, housing, and urban sanitation.

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Title: The Common Nature of Epidemics, and their relation to climate and civilization

Author: Southwood Smith

Editor: Thomas Baker

Release date: December 27, 2019 [eBook #61029]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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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.