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Excerpt from Short Lectures on Sanitary Subjects While avoiding as far as possible all controverted and still unsettled points, the aim of these papers being prae tical rather than speculative, it has been found necessary to explain the mode by which infectious diseases are sup posed to be propagated. The weight of sound scientific opinion throughout Europe being in favour of the germ theory, that theory has been accordingly adopted, the more readily as it is emphatically a theory on the safe side. The precautions it points out cannot possibly do any harm, if the theory is not true, whereas if 'it is true - as it is believed to be-the neglect of them must be productive of wide spread evil and destruction. Technical terms have been as far as possible avoided, and where they of necessity occur their meaning is clearly explained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.