Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Nutrition, Disease, Superstition, Supernaturalism, Religious Authority, Religion, Sanitation, Public Health, Class

    Reports on the advocacy by Home Secretary Henry J Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston) of good diet, washing and, as a last resort, prayer, as a means of preventing cholera. Denies the power of prayer to thwart cholera but attacks the views of the Presbytery of Edinburgh who advocate fasting to check the disease.