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    • CHAPTER 14

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    FROM FETICH TO HYGIENE.

  • I THE THEOLOGICAL VIEW OF EPIDEMICS AND SANITATION
    — The recurrence of great pestilence’s
    — Their early ascription to the wrath or malice of unseen powers
    — Their real cause want of hygienic precaution
    — Theological apotheosis of filth
    — Sanction given to the sacred theory of pestilence by Pope Gregory the Great
    — Modes of propitiating the higher powers
    — Modes of thwarting the powers of evil
    — Persecution of the Jews as Satan’s emissaries
    — Persecution of witches as Satan’s emissaries
    — Case of the Untori at Milan
    — New developments of fetichism.
    — The blood of St. Januarius at Naples
    — Appearance of better methods in Italy.
    — In Spain

  • II GRADUAL DECAY OF THEOLOGICAL VIEWS REGARDING SANITATION
    — Comparative freedom of England from persecutions for plague-bringing, in spite of her wretched sanitary condition
    — Aid sought mainly through church services
    — Effects of the great fire in London
    — The jail fever
    — The work of John Howard
    — Plagues in the American colonies
    — In France.
    — The great plague at Marseilles
    — Persistence of the old methods in Austria
    — In Scotland

  • III THE TRIUMPH OF SANITARY SCIENCE
    — Difficulty of reconciling the theological theory of pestilence’s with accumulating facts
    — Curious approaches to a right theory
    — The law governing the relation of theology to disease
    — Recent victories of hygiene in all countries
    — In England.
    — -Chadwick and his fellows
    — In France

  • IV THE RELATION OF SANITARY SCIENCE TO RELIGION
    — The process of sanitary science not at the cost of religion
    — Illustration from the policy of Napoleon III in France
    — Effect of proper sanitation on epidemics in the United States
    — Change in the attitude of the Church toward the cause and cure of pestilence

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