Notes on the epidemic cholera / By R. Hartley Kennedy.

  • Richard Hartley Kennedy
Date:
1846
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Credit: Notes on the epidemic cholera / By R. Hartley Kennedy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    PKEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The following pages are reprinted from the work which was originally written as the author's official report of his personal experience as a Medical Offi- cer on the Bombay establishment, enlarged into a popular form, and published in Calcutta in 1826. At the time of publication, he was seriously assured, by parties who were generally considered to be very competent advisers, that his work would never be read, that it had appeared too late to pos- sess any interest! — that the disease had run its course, and was extinct, or soon to be so, and to be no more remembered!—his published opinion proves that he then thought otherwise, and twenty years' experience shows him right, at least on one head,— and that by no means the least important, in which it was his peculiarity to differ from some of his colleagues. Retired from professional life, he has now no personal object to answer in presenting his volume to the public; but the accounts recei^/ed of the
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