To Dr. Cormack, editor of Association Medical Journal.

  • Macloughlin, David, 1786-1870.
Date:
[1855]
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Credit: To Dr. Cormack, editor of Association Medical Journal. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    cases of cholera began to reappear; or with the child of three years old, or with her family, who died of cholera on the 14th February, 1856, at No. 9, Archer Street, Kensington; and he would have arrived at the conclusion that it was impossible that this man could have caught the disease from either of these persons, or from their family. And had he gone further, and inquired into the particulars of the case at No. 7, Plough Yard, Shore- ditch, and into the particulars of the case No. 9, Archer Street, Kensington, he would have satisfied himself that it was impossible these two persons could have contracted the disease by their intercourse with any one, and impossible they could have com- municated it to this man. Consequently, from this scientific inquiry, he would have arrived at the conclusion, that cholera is not a contagious disease, and that the public need not apprehend that they can contract the disease by com- municating with those labouring under it. And the medical profession would thereby be led to seek for the etiology of cholera somewhere else than in contagion. London: \1th March, 1856.