Excerpt from Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences, Vol. 44
The following observations on the mode of propagation of cholera are from the official memorandum of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council, on the precautions to be taken against the epidemic under the Regulations issued by the Lords of the Council and otherwise: -
"That such precautions (never unimportant where human health is to be preserved) are supremely important when the spread of cholera is to be prevented, is a truth which will best be understood when the manner in which cholera spreads is considered. Happily for mankind, cholera is so little contagious, in the sense in which small-pox and typhus are commonly called contagious, that, if proper precautions are taken where it is present, there is scarcely any risk that the disease will spread to persons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon the sick. But cholera has a certain peculiar contagiousness of its own, now to be explained; which, where sanitary circumstances are bad, can operate with terrible force, and at considerable distances from the sick.
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