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mills in various parts of Lancashire, and more especially at 

 Lancaster and at Backbarrow near Ulverston. 



' This fever seems to have been so malignant as to have 

 given rise to a panic among the operatives and the people 

 among whom they dwelt. 



* It was believed that the cotton was poisonous. Dr. 

 Campbell succeeded not only in proving to the public the 

 groundlessness of this opinion, and that the business might 

 be safely carried on by attention to certain sanitary regula- 

 tions, but by his very judicious management he saved what 

 would be even now considered a large proportion of lives. 



' Of the treatment adopted, time will only allow me to 

 say little. Believing the disease one of debility, he avoided 

 the bleeding and lowering practice of the day, and em- 

 ployed a supporting method. He refrained from purgatives, 

 and checked the least tendency to diarrhoea ; he gave wine 

 liberally, and bark and opium. In fact his treatment was 

 similar to that of Dr. Graves, thirty years ago, and of many 

 good practitioners of the present day. 



* Like Graves, he fed fevers, and he anticipated that 

 distinguished physician in the use of musk and other anti- 

 spasmodics, and in the administration of tartar emetic and 

 opium. 



' He made a close examination of the mills and of the 

 habitations of the workpeople, and paid great attention to 

 ventilation, fumigation, disinfection, and cleanliness. 



* He found at Backbarrow privies contiguous to the 

 workrooms emitting a very offensive odour. This he 

 remedied by a very ingenious contrivance ; having wide 

 pipes made, so that the excrementitious matter fell direct 

 to the bottom, he turned through them a stream of water, 

 which washed all away as it came. 



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