Excerpt from The Plague in India: An Impeachment and an Appeal
Since September, 1896, has the bubonic-plague now been raging in India, and has defied all efforts of the doctors and the Government. In the Bombay Presidency alone the victims of the scourge can be counted by 100,000; and the means employed, to combat the epidemic, have proved futile - whilst throwing a heavy financial burden upon the Indian Government and upon the various Municipalities, the end of which is at present not discernible.
The object of the following remarks is the endeavour to demonstrate, that the attempts of preventing and curing the malady, have not met with any decided success; and that another prophylactic means, which has a strong scientific basis and many important features for its recommendation - urgently demands a practical trial.
The whole dissertation tends to prove, that the greatest safeguard against an attack of plague is a "Natural Immunity "; and that all efforts should be directed to the discovery of the nature and the cause of this immunity, with the ultimate aim, of imparting the latter to the susceptible portion of the people -thus preventing the individual outbreak and checking the spread of the disorder - in fact: stamping out the epidemic.
Of all epidemic diseases, which periodically attack mankind, none is more dreaded than the "plague."
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