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Excerpt from Letters on the Cholera Morbus: Containing Ample Evidence That This Disease, Under Whatever Name Known, Cannot Be Transmitted From the Persons of Those Labouring Under It to Other Individuals, by Contact Through the Medium of Inanimate Substances or Through the Medium of the Atmosph
For one piece of tact the author of the letter deserves great credit; for whereas his College collectively, when forming their Opinion on the questions proposed to them by the Council, seemed to throw all India records overboard, - he, in his individual capacity, as author of the letter, sends after them all the Russian reports in support Of contagion; for anxious as he is to prove his point, not a word do we get of the on dits so current in Russia about persons being attacked with the disease from smelling to hemp arrived from such or such a place; from having looked at a boatman who had been up the Volga or down the Volga, &c. &c.: all which statements, when duly inquired into, prove to be unsupported by any thing in the shape of respectable authority, and this is now, in all probability, pretty generally known to be the case, as Dr. Macmichael must be quite aware of.
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