Letter on the cholera asphyxia, now prevailing in the city of New York: addressed to James Bond Read, M.D., chairman of the Medical Board, Savannah / By John W. Francis.

  • John W. Francis
Date:
1832
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Credit: Letter on the cholera asphyxia, now prevailing in the city of New York: addressed to James Bond Read, M.D., chairman of the Medical Board, Savannah / By John W. Francis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON THE CHOLERA ASPHYXIA. NEW-YORK, August 16th 1832. RESPECTED SIR, Your kind letter was duly received, and I have several times attempted to write you an answer; but such has been the severity of my professional engagements, that the present is the first leisure I could command for the purpose. We have, in¬ deed, become “ unfortunately familiar with the dis¬ ease and this circumstance alone authorizes me to make this communication to you, and to your medical board, should you deem it of sufficient con¬ sequence to submit it to them. I was, at first, among those who rejected the idea that the India cholera had appeared in Canada, and considered the disease of Montreal and Que¬ bec, as owing its peculiar character and virulence to a combination of causes, such as we know usu¬ ally gives malignity to endemical and epidemical disorders in certain latitudes. When the commit-