A sequel to an essay on the yellow fever; principally intended to prove, by incontestable facts and important documents, that the fever, called bulam, or pestilential, has no existence as a distinct, or a contagious disease.

  • Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821.
Date:
1817
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    possessed by Dr. Chisholm, would have restrained him from thus connecting himself with this calumny, after the many inexcusable misrepresentations by which he has endeavoured to induce a belief, that the Yellow, or Ar- dent Fever, is contagious, and of which he has been un- answerably convicted in the Seventh Appendix to my Essay, and in my additional communication published in the SQth Number of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. The onus probandi, in regard to this charge against Dr. Rush, ought in reason, and according to all the rules of evidence, to fall on those who have made it. I cannot be expected to adduce negative proofs, where no proofs are advanced in the affirmative. J. will, however, un- dertake to do this, so as to satisfy all who are unbiassed on this subject. Dr. Chisholm knows (for the fact was eagerly pub- lished by himself) that some years ago, a periodical work •was undertaken at New York, by Dr. Hosack and others, principally for the purpose of supporting the advocates for the alledged contagion of the Yellow Fever; and that this work was continued to a fourth volume, under the title of the American Medical and Philosophical Regis- ter ; and as Dr. Rush died before any part of the last ■volume of this work had been published, it is impossible