Transcriber's Note
This text does not refer to epidemic cholera. The term "cholera morbus"was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to describe bothnon-epidemic cholera and gastrointestinal diseases that mimickedcholera. The term "cholera morbus" is found in older references but isnot in current scientific use. The condition "cholera morbus" is nowreferred to as "acute gastroenteritis."
Spelling variations and inconsistencies have been retainedto match the original text. Only such cases which strongly indicated thepresence of inadvertent typographical error have been corrected; a detailedlist of these corrections can be foundat the end of this text.
This ebook consists of two separate parts. The first from 1831 ("LETTERSON THE CHOLERA MORBUS.") contains Letters I-X; and the second from 1832("LETTERS ON THE CHOLERA MORBUS, &c. &c. &c.") containsLetters I-III and a Postscript. For ease of navigation in the HTMLdocument, the notations "Pt_1" and "Pt_2" have been added directly aboveoriginal page numbers.
LETTERS

ON THE

CHOLERA MORBUS.
CONTAINING
AMPLE EVIDENCE THAT THIS DISEASE, UNDER WHATEVER NAME KNOWN, CANNOTBE TRANSMITTED FROM THE PERSONS OF THOSE LABOURING UNDER IT TO OTHERINDIVIDUALS, BY CONTACT—THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF INANIMATESUBSTANCES—OR THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE ATMOSPHERE; AND THAT ALLRESTRICTIONS, BY CORDONS AND QUARANTINE REGULATIONS, ARE, AS FAR ASREGARDS THIS DISEASE, NOT MERELY USELESS, BUT HIGHLY INJURIOUS TO THECOMMUNITY.
By a Professional Man of Thirty Years experience, in various parts ofthe World.
LONDON:
NICHOLS AND SONS, PRINTERS, EARL'S COURT,CRANBOURN STREET LEICESTER SQUARE.
1831.
The first series of these Letters, consisting of five, appeared in themonths of September and October of the present year; five others,written in a more popular form, were inserted in a Newspaper from timeto time, in the course of this month:—a few additions and alterations,preparatory to their appearance in the shape of a pamphlet, have beenmade.
If, at a moment like the present, they prove in any manner useful to thepublic, the writer will feel great satisfaction.
November 26th, 1831.
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LETTERS ON THE CHOLERA MORBUS;

SHEWING THAT IT IS

NOT A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
LETTER I.
If we view the progress of this terrific malady, as it tends todisorganise society wherever it shows itself, as it causes thedestruction of human life on an extensive scale, or as it crampscommerce, and causes vast expense in the maintenance of quarantine andcordon establishments, no subject can surely be, at this moment, ofdeeper interest. It is to be regretted, indeed, that, in this country,political questions (of great magnitude certainly), should haveprevented the legislature, and society at large, from examining, withdue severity, all the data connected with cholera, in order to avert,should we unhappily be afflicted with an epidemic visitation of thisdisease, that state of confusion, bordering on anarchy, which we findhas occurred in some of those countries where it has this year appeared.
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