Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens.

Date:
1853
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Credit: Observations on the nature and the treatment of the Asiatic cholera / by William Stevens. 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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    made to see the light that these facts might be used as the means of enabling the surgeon of that prison, to undo the evil that had been done in June and July, 1832, and that too by the very individuals who were appointed as the well-paid guardians of the public health. Soon after the publication of Mr. Ross’s lectures and tables in the “ Medical Times,” I went to Lon- don for the express purpose of trying to prevail on Mr. Wakefield, the surgeon of the prison, to do justice to himself, to truth, and to those who were then suffering from a fell poison, by the immediate publication of the results of the new practice in the cases of the Cholera that had been in the prison in 1832, as the facts still stand in his own verified journal to this day. I was the more anxious on this subject, because there were still living witnesses of the highest respectability who had seen almost every one of the Cholera patients that had been in Coldbath- Fields in 1832. And knowing what I do of the sterling worth of these gentlemen, I believe they would not refuse to give their testimony in sup- port of what they know to be a most important truth, namely, that, in 1832, the new practice had produced the most magical results in upwards of four hundred severe cases of the cholera in which it had been put to the test of a fair experiment in the prison that was then under their direction.