Notes worth noticing, relative to the cholera, which has, for some years past, occupied the public attention / by Dr. Gillkrest.

  • Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853
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1852
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Credit: Notes worth noticing, relative to the cholera, which has, for some years past, occupied the public attention / by Dr. Gillkrest. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    declaration of their honourable colleagues of the Hotel Dieu on the non-contagious nature of the cholera. “Alibkrt, Lugol, Biett, Manry, “Emery, Gerdy, Jobert. “ St. Louis'‘s Hospital, Friday, April Qth, 1832.” “Happening to be absent yesterday, when my colleagues tliought it their duty to draw up a public declaration on the non-contagious nature of the Cholera Morbus, I tln’nk myself bound to declare that I fully adhere to their opinion on that subject. “ Richerand, “ Chief Surgeon of St. Louis's Hospital. “ Saturday, April 7.” “ Hospital of Notre-Dame de Pitie. “ The physicians and surgeons of this Hospital have abstained, to this day, from expressing their opinion on the contagion or non-contagion of the Cholera Morbus, waiting, before they did so, until facts had enlightened them on a question of sucli vast importance, and so highly interesting to public tranquillity. “ Now that the epidemic is declining, and that tliousands of facts, collected by them in and out of the Hos])ital, have impressed upon their minds the conviction that the CImlera Morbus is not contagious, they deem it their duty to give the utmost publicity to this fact. “Serres, Louis, Ct-icment, Akuuai., “Parent du Chatelet, Boun.i.Ann, “Ltsfrakc, and Vki.peau. Paris, April SOth, 1832.” “ Moniteur. In layii^ before the public the foregoing lists of pro- fessors of medicine and surgery, whose high reputation is more than European, I consider that the force of evidence