THE ARREST AND PREVENTION OF CHOLERA : BEING A GUIDE TO THE ANTISEPTIC TREATMENT, WITH NEW OBSERVATIONS ON CAUSATION; BY ARTHUR ERNEST SANSOM, M.B., LOND.. ASSOCIATE AND WARNEFORD SCHOLAR OF KING'S COLLEGE, AUTHOR OF CHLOROFORM: ITS ACTION AND ADMINISTRATION,' &c. ΤΟ WILLIAM CROOKES, Esq., F.R.S., WHO, BY HIS POWERS OF INDUCTIVE REASONING AND PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH, DISCOVERED THE METAL, THALLIUM; AND TO THE VALUE OF WHOSE OBSERVATIONS ON THE MODE OF DESTRUCTION OF ORGANIZED POISONS THESE PAGES TESTIFY, THE AUTHOR DEDICATES, IN REMEMBRANCE OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP, THIS BOOK. PREFACE. FROM my own observations, as well as from the recorded experience of others, I have been led to form very strong opinions as to the real cause and nature of Cholera. In this volume I present my conclusions and the reasons which led me to those conclusions, with the hope that they will receive the friendly criticism of all who desire to discover the most truthful answer to a momentous question. In the Science of Life, we cannot as yet hope for absolute precision: we cannot reason from principles to facts, but must ascend from facts to those "general inferences which are our most comprehensive expressions of attainable truth." Mutual help |