The fast and the cholera : a sermon, preached in the Unitarian chapel, Boston, on Tuesday, September 25th, 1849, (being the day agreed upon to be observed in the borough, as a day of fasting and humiliation, in consequence of the extreme prevalence of the cholera) / by James Malcolm, ... to which is appended, a brief, practical view of the Asiatic cholera, by A.G. Malcolm, M.D.

  • Malcolm, James, 1811-1855.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The fast and the cholera : a sermon, preached in the Unitarian chapel, Boston, on Tuesday, September 25th, 1849, (being the day agreed upon to be observed in the borough, as a day of fasting and humiliation, in consequence of the extreme prevalence of the cholera) / by James Malcolm, ... to which is appended, a brief, practical view of the Asiatic cholera, by A.G. Malcolm, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    'I’liE Writer of the accompanying Discourse has been induced to make it public, not from any claim it possesses to originality either of thought or cx})ression, hut from an intimation ho received that a more extensive circulation of the sentiments expressed, might he ])roductive of jmhlic ad¬ vantage. 'I.’he liaste of preparation must plead in extenuation of its crudity of tliought, and imperfection of aiTangemeut. 'J’lie Ap2>cndix has heen furnished, hy the kindness of a brother, in tlie hoj)o that tlie resi)ite we now enjoy from tlie Cholera, may he turned to usi'ful purpose, and that we he not induced to spend in fancied security the present time, on whose energetic employment rests our hope of general amelioration, and of preventing a recuiTence of the mortality next Summer.
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