Cholera gleanings, a family hand book, enabling readers of all classes to judge for themselves of the great error into which governments were unfortunately led by men looked upon as infallible guides, who very strenuously maintained the cholera to be a disease during which "The living shall fly from the sick they should cherish." / By J. Gillkrest.
- Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cholera gleanings, a family hand book, enabling readers of all classes to judge for themselves of the great error into which governments were unfortunately led by men looked upon as infallible guides, who very strenuously maintained the cholera to be a disease during which "The living shall fly from the sick they should cherish." / By J. Gillkrest. 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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![a PART II. RELATING TO OCCUnnBNCKS IN nUSSIA, POI.AKDj AUSTRIA, AND PRUSSIA. Relative to the first appearance of malignant cholera 33- an epidemic in Russia (in 1831), the task of going over again here all that I was able to shew on the subject in my earliest letters in the Lancet of 1831,—as well as ia the Times, Courier, &c. of the same and following year,—cannot be now attempted, I may promise those engaged deeply in the subject, that, from the official evidence collected there from authorised English and foreign Physicians, for the use of Governments, Boards or Committees in England were, as in the case of evidence from India, by no means justified in arriving at the conclusion, that the disease was contagious, and consequently, importable. Extracts Irom some of the official Reports which reached England may, however, be acceptable. Dr. Walker, an old retired Army Physician, sent from St. Petersburg to Moscow by our Ambassador at the former place, states in one of his official Reports,— that he did not learn that the contagionists in Mos- cow had any strong particular instances to prove the com- munication of the disease from one individual to another, and that he had heard of several instances brought forward in support of the opinion [contagion], but they are not fair ones. He mentions where exceptions seom to have taken place as to hospital attendants not being attacked ; but he has neglected (a very (common omission in similar state- ments) to tell us whether or not the hospitals in which at- tendants were attacked were situated in or near places where the atmosphere was known to be eqnalli/ productive of the- b2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21363997_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
