Gymnastics, an essential branch of national education, both public and private : the only remedy to improve the present physical condition of man / by Captain Chiosso.

  • Chiosso, James, 1789-1864.
Date:
1854
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    professional opinion; and, therefore, whatever they have said must be received as mere conjecture, un- worthy of the attention of pathologists. Cholera is a disease quite alarming enough with- out alarming the public more, by placing before them doubtful cases, and drawing from these conclu- sions which are more than doubtful. I have the honour to be, my Lord, *' Your obedient Servant, D. Macloughlin, M.D., Member of the Legion of Honour of France. London, 23rd November, 1853, 34, Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. [Case, No. 23.] The General Board of Health assumed that the first case of epidemic cholera which occurred in Great Britain, in 1848, occurred at Horselydown, Septem- ber 22nd (see page 14 of their Report on Cholera) ; but they forgot to state, that that case occurred in a sailor, belonging to the Elbe steamer, which had anived two days before from Hamburgh, where cholera raged ; and that on the passage fi'om Ham- burgh to London, two men belonging to the vesseil had died of cholera.* They also forgot to mention that a man who slept in the same room as the sailor at Horselydown, on the night of the 21st and the 22nd September, was himself seized with cholera six days after. Therefore it is evident that cholera was on board the Elbe steamer when she airived at Lon- don ; and since the General Board assume that the * I have the Captain's authority for stating this.