The evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : the Privy Council, and College of Physicians; the means of prevention and method of cure of the cholera morbus, and the atrocities of the cholera panic / By Captain White.

  • White, W. (William), active 1807-1838.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The evils of quarantine laws, and non-existence of pestilential contagion : the Privy Council, and College of Physicians; the means of prevention and method of cure of the cholera morbus, and the atrocities of the cholera panic / By Captain White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to a subject which not only deeply affects the social welfare and the commerce of these kingdoms, but the best interests, nay, the lives, the property, the welfare of the inhabitable parts of the whole world ; viz., the Evils of Quarantine Laws. While Ministers are chiefly directing their atten¬ tion as to how and by what means they shall retain their places and preserve their power, thousands and tens of thousands of human beings, through their neglect, are hourly being consigned to premature graves, under circumstances the most horrid and ap¬ palling. Millions upon millions of the human race have already been swept away the victims to a bar¬ barous system of laws, the iniquitous effects of preju¬ dice and ignorance. Ere your Majesty will have closed these pages it will be perceived, that you have it now in your power to do more for the preservation of life and property throughout the world than any Monarch ever yet ventured to do; the consequence of which would be, that the whole of the human race would never cease to offer up their most fervent prayers to Heaven for your health and prosperity. If your Majesty should have resolution enough to burst asunder the bonds of the barbarous and inhuman quarantine laws, as now sup¬ ported by this nation, to the great detriment and in¬ comprehensible injury of the whole of the world, you will indeed accomplish one of the most important of achievements. The subject will have additional interest with your Majesty from the fact, that it is to your late most noble, most philanthropic, and Royal Father, the world is now indebted for the valuable light which