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Excerpt from Maxims of Public Health
The plague, Asiatic cholera. Typhus fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlatina, yellow fever, small-pox, and some other infectious diseases belong to the same class. The plague, that has frequently decimated mankind, still lingers in an endemic form among the haunts of misery, want, ignorance, and degeneracy of race. It leaps from its lair when unobstructed, and invades the homes of the intelligent and well-to;do classes by infection. It has been declared, by the perversity, the ignorance, the assumption, or some thing worse, of a small but noisy and persistent part of the medical profession, to be non-infectious, and has been left to spread and destroy mankind. It was regarded in former times as a mysterious visitation of Divine Providence, and consequently no measures were taken to arrest its course. Other diseases, now more prevalent, are regarded by many in the same light, and therefore the sanitarian of to-day has to deal with the stubborn apathy of superstition.
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