History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins.

  • Hawking, Francis Bisset, 1794-1894.
Date:
1831
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Credit: History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia : including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name, from Asia into Europe ... / by Bisset Hawkins. 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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    able observers who have been sent by our Government to the scene of disease; but the public are, in the mean time, naturally anxious to judge for themselves on the facts hitherto disclosed. It is possible, but hap- pily not very probable, that this unwelcome stranger may make its appearance on our shores more speedily and more suddenly than we have reason to anticipate; and in such a contingency, however remote, it would be desirable that country magistrates, clergy- men, and medical practitioners, residing at a distance from opportunities: of informa- tion, should be enabled to possess the pain- ful experience which has been acquired in other countries. I am confident that the writers and jour- nalists, of whose labours I have most fully availed myself, will feel no dissatisfaction at the liberty which I have taken. The cause is of such engrossing importance to all, that