Part 2

See p. 18.

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CONTENTS.

EPIDEMICS—

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Their Common Nature 1

Are all Fevers:—e.g. Plague, Sweating 2 Sickness, Cholera, &c.,

Rapidity of their Course 4

Warnings of their Approach 5

Periodicity of their Return 8

Are produced by the same Causes 10

Foul Air—Overcrowding 12

Attack Animals 7, 13, 16, 65, 110

Their Attendant Signs—Meteorology 17

Action of Air on the Blood 19

Theories of Epidemic Causes 23

Influence of Climate 25

Mortality within the Tropics 29

Their Relation to Civilization 33

State of England in the 14th Century 35

Improvements in the 15th Century 41

Prolongation of Life in the 17th and 45 18th Centuries

Disappearance of the Earlier Epidemics, 51 e.g. Jail Fever, Sweating Sickness, Plague, Typhus-Gravior, &c.

Experience of the Model Dwellings 54

Sanitary Legislation and Works 57, 129

Epidemics are within Human Control 58

QUARANTINE—

Originated in the Belief that Epidemics 61 spread exclusively by Contagion