214 THE CONTAGIOUS TYPHUS 



some official of the Turkish Government. But 

 we should be mistaken. 



No ! every one hoped at first that he, at 

 least, would be spared by the contagion, and 

 the authorities did nothing to resist the evil 

 but adopt the old course of quarantine a 

 remedy more illusory now than ever, since the 

 nations are in constant communication, either 

 in their own persons or by the exchange of 

 their commodities; and consequently, the 

 epidemic is pursuing its invading course from 

 week to week. 



That which is being done for the cholera 

 gives us a scale by which we may estimate the 

 efforts which will be made to arrest the gene- 

 ration and the contagion of the cattle typhus.* 



We are certainly bound to resist the intro- 

 duction of horned cattle tainted with typhus ; 

 but in the conditions amidst which they live, 

 some of them may bear the seeds of the dis- 



* Since these lines were put into the printer's hands, 

 the French Government have proposed to other nations 

 to take measures collectively to prevent the pilgrimage to 

 Mecca continuing to be a cause of the spread of cholera. 

 We hasten to render justice to this prudent initiative. 

 But why not take the same measures against typhus 

 which are judged necessary against cholera? 



