The Board of Health and the cholera : a memoir of the saline treatment.

  • MacMillan, James.
Date:
[1852]
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    and Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. This high honour having been conferred upon Dr. Stevens two years after the Board of Health's endeavours to destroy the reputation of his new practice and his own personal character for veracity, may be regarded as a proof that the University of Oxford regarded the Board of Health as anything but infallible. In the course of the memoir it is narrated that Dr. Stevens had the honour conferred upon him by the Magistrates of the county of Middlesex, in Quarter Sessions, of a vote of thanks, and was also by them pre- sented with a piece of plate, value a hundred guineas, as an expression of gratitude for his valuable services in combating the Cholera in the county prison of Coldbath-fields. I have much pleasure in concluding this schedule of public marks of esteem bestowed on Dr. Stevens for his philanthropy and talents, by stating that his late Majesty Christian VIII. of Denmark, out of his princely appreciation of Dr. Stevens' valuable services in his dominions—by introducing the saline practice in the treatment of the Asiatic Cholera in Europe, and of the Yellow Fever in the Danish West India islands, and for having