Dritter Protest gegen Professor Isidor Neumann's Geschichtsschreiberei über Syphilis / [Johann Karl Proksch].
- Johann Karl Proksch
- Date:
- 1896
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dritter Protest gegen Professor Isidor Neumann's Geschichtsschreiberei über Syphilis / [Johann Karl Proksch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![journal throughout indicates the painstaking care on his part. At the beginning o£ each month he set down the month and, after it, the number of days in it, as, for example, “June 30 days.” At the end of the month there is always the entry showing the number of rats killed. Thus, at the end of the notes, on Monday, the 3Ist, is the entry “killed 61 rats this month—total 1,778.” He was a careful recorder, whose entries are to be respected. The diary was written at Fort Clark and parts of’it, from which the selections are reprinted, were dated in July, August and September, 1837. As Quaife says, “The Mandan tribe, like the army of Sennacherib, was practically blotted out, and the sufferers on the upper Missouri knew as little of the nature of their affliction as did the ancient Assyrians.” The account begins with Chardon’s entry, “Wednesday, 28 (June). The S. B. [steamboat St. Peters] arrived from above at 6 a. m.—and started 7 a. m.—The agent distributed out the few presents to the Rees and gave them a few words of good talk, and departed.” From here on, I have selected only refer- ences in the journal that have to do with the smallpox. “(July) Friday 14.’ A Young Mandan died today of the Small Pox—several others has caught it. “Monday, 17. An other Case of small pox broke Out to-day at the Village. “Tuesday, 25. Several young Men Arrived from the dried Meat Camp. . . . They say that the small pox has broke out at the Camp [the meat camp.] “Thursday, 27. The small pox is Killing them off at the Village, four died to day. “Friday, 28. The Mandans and Rees gave us two splendid dances, they say they dance, on account of their Not haveing a long time to live, as they expect to all die of the Small Pox. “Sunday, 30. An other report from the GrosVentres to day say, they are Arrived at their Village, and that 10 or 15 of them have died, they threaten Death and Distruction to us all at this Place, saying that I was the Cause of the small pox Makeing its appearance in this Country—One of Our best friends of the Village (The Four Bears) died today, regretted by all Who Knew him. “(August) Saturday, 5th. News from GrosVentres. . . . a Great Many of them have died of the Small Pox—several Chiefs Among them, they swear vengeance against all the Wbites, as they say the small Pox Was brought here by the S. B. “(August) Monday 7. Six more died to day. “Tuesday 8. Four more died to day—the two tliirds of the Village are sick. . . . The small Pox has broke Out at the Little Mandan Village, three died yesterday, two chiefs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30591764_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
