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.

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 Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    an excuse will hardly seem necessary to them: the delicacy which would be suitable in borrowing from works of wit or of fiction would be misplaced when, in times of ex- pected calamity, we snatch up a stone on every side to fortify our common safety. I have, in nearly every instance, quoted with care the authorities to which I have had recourse. Marks of haste will be everywhere dis- cernible, but this negligence, arising from a desire of satisfying the curiosity of the public, will not be found, I trust, to affect the evidence of the facts, but only to tarnish the quality of the composition. A want of order will be found which future writers may easily supply at their leisure. Four maps have been published, illustra- tive of the course of the disease; one is attached to the Report of Mr. Scot on the Indian Epidemic, another is in the German
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