Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-02-09
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The existence Of this dreadful scourge in e..
land, and the rapidi,y with which it is spreadi''
in the northern parts of our country, are cal,u
lated, more than any thing else, to create = nj.
full interest in the United States. All t,,,.
therefore, which may throw any light upoD H.
origin or mai ire Of the disease. cannot bnt bs =,
ceptabIe to lie AEerican public. Under III,
impression we have, thrnayh the p~o,itene,s #
DIR. Felix Pascalis. Obtained a letter adlr.,,.,
to him by the celebrated Doctor Chervin. Of p,
ris, on this subject, which we have TRANSLATED
and new present to our readers. DR.. Pascal,
has also fl, nished US with the documents alluded
to in DR.. Chcrvin's letter. which we shall tran,
late and publish from time to time as leisure Will
pei NIFTY. Y. Gag.
PARIS. NOVEMBER Is, 1881
Nh dear and h0norea Friend:
You request me in your last letter for DOR.
ments respecting the Cholera M0rbus. A.,
have rot myself seen this maIady, | cannot smell
of it from experience; but | enclose YOU sr,,r,I
documents which cannot fail to interest ypu.
You will find in the number of French Ian.
Get sent yon, extracts from some letters from ,
Medical Commission Of Russia, which proves tb,
the commissioner are not at all favorable 70 III,
opinion of cOntagion, and that they Oppose all
the pretended sanitary measures ...hich prov
grow out Of this opinion. These measures. iay,
in no instance prevented the Cholera. and have
moreover, done incalcuIable injury in Russ,
Prussia, Austria, and in every place in which
they have been adopted They have also bren
almost entirely abandoned in these different cam.
tries, on account Of their inability and danger.
Besides the ten physicians sent by the Frepcb
government 10 Poland. to observe the cholera
and whose opinions | have communicated to yu,
as to the nOnc0ntagi0us character Of this disease
the Polish committee of Paris have sent there
more than twenty. to carry assistance to our
brave and unfortunate friends. These physiclsm
have been employed in the Military Hospital, Of
Warsaw, aud have. consequently had ~frequer,
occasion to see and study the cholera: and
according to the documents which | have receiy.
ed, and which | believe to be correct, they are
nearly all convinced of its non -contagion.
have recently seen the celebrated r. An.
tomnarchi, who was Inspector. General Of n.
Military Hospitals in Poland. and he told me
tIu TIC was SOuNlLlICu lid ~ ulStlS
was not contagious.
The proofs of the non.contasion Of the Che.
lera are already very numerous, and are increas.
ing daily. New facts are constantly being de-.
veloped in favor Of its epidemic character and
Of non transmission which has been ~rayasing,
large portion of Europe for the last three years,
and which, according to every probability, will
invade the whole. Who knows whether mi,
scourge will not sooner or later show itself in the
new world:
What Is the primitive cause of the Cholerai-
Up to the present moment We know nothing, and
perhaps will never know. But there are certain
occasional causes, the existence of which are eI.
to US by the occurrences which have tax.
en- place from 1917 to the present day.
Thus. my dear friend, you will observe, that
my opinion is very positive that the CholerlMor.
bus. so caA.d .ASiafic. is not a contagious or i'm.
disease God grant that governments
of the same oplnion-they would spare ma.
ny evils to the people over whom they preside.
As to our " government, it is still far in the
back ground in such matters, as YOU will see BY.
correspondence with it, on the subject of expert
ments which | proposed to make. for the purpose
81 atiesting its contagious or non contagious cha
icteI. You will observe how it rejects the means
are incontestibly the most proper to a.,
i've at the truth. But this will not astonish you,
Informed that it has still the same Councils
II Sanitary matters as surrounded it in 1885,, and
Turing all The events of the restoration. to wit:
NJ. Pariset, Baily. Kerandren. Moreau de
|ounes, Hely d'Oissel, SC. who are still mem
OF the Superior Council of Health.
Let US hope, however. that the cause of truth
ylil triumph. notwithstanding all the effmts OF
hose who live by error. in deceiving the conf.
ience which men clothed with power yield 10
hem, because they cherish their ideas.
Excuse, pray you. the length Of nv letter. |
vii resume, at another time, this important sub.
which las for some time attracted the atten.
ION OF all Europe, and mine also, as you may
suppose.
Believe me, my dear sir, and much honored
riend, your most devoted servant, &c.
CHERVIN.