PROPHYLAXIS;

OR, THE

MODE OF PREVENTING DISEASE,

BY A DUE APPRECIATION OF THE GRAND ELEMENTS OF
VITALITY;

LIGHT, AIR, AND WATER,

WITH

Observations on Intermural Burials.

BY EDWARD BASCOME, M.D.

London: Samuel Highly, Fleet-street.

1850.

By the same Author,

HISTORY OF EPIDEMIC PESTILENCES,

FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, 1495 YEARS BEFORE THE
BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR, TO 1848,

WITH

Researches into their Nature, Causes, & Prophylaxis,

London: John Churchill, Princes-street, Soho. 1851.

By the same Author,

Observations on the Nature, Causes, and Treatment

OF

TWO DEADLY PESTILENCES,

YELLOW FEVER AND CHOLERA MORBUS.

INFANTILE LIFE

IN

CONNEXION WITH THE MOTHER;

THEIR MANAGEMENT CONSIDERED:

INCLUSIVE OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE THERAPEIÆ.

BY

EDWARD BASCOME, M.D.

Formerly in her Majesty's Service;

Late Resident Physician and Principal of Wyke House Asylum;
Mem. Societé de Medicine de Paris; Mem. Phys. Med. Societé, Erlangen;
Mem. Epidemiological Society of London;

Fellow of the London Statistical Society, &c. &c. &c.

“γυνὴ δὲ δόξα ανδρός ἐσιν.”

(Woman is the glory of man.)

THE

APOSTLE PAUL.

PROV. XXXI. 18.

"Her children arise up and call her blessed."

LONDON:

JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET;
J. BAYNE, 3, BRIDGE STREET ROW, CHESTER.

1856.

151. c. 16.