Vulgar words in Letters on the Cholera Morbus. - Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever - name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those - labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through - the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium - of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons - and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this - disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the - community. (Page 1)
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In truth, from the grave as well as from the sublime, there often seems to be "but a step;" and in reading over this gentleman's suggestions about _susceptibles_ and _non-susceptibles_, one may fancy himself, instead of being in the land of thinking people, to be in the land of Egypt, where, as we are informed (Madden, 1825), the sage matrons discuss the point, whether a cat be not a better vehicle for contagion than a dog:--a horse may be trusted, they say, but as to an ass, he is the most incorrigible of contagion smugglers;--of fresh bread we never need be afraid, but the susceptibility of butcher's meat is quite an established thing:--or we might fancy ourselves transported to regions of romance, where it is matter of profound deliberation, whether an egg shall be broken at the large or the small end.