Remarks on the resolution adopted by the Honourable the Board of Health of the City of New York on the 6th Nov. inst. in relation to Dr. Nicholas Chervin, a French physician. [And his inquiries into the origin of yellow fever / [Nicholas Chervin].

  • Chervin, Nicholas, 1783-1843
Date:
1821]
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Credit: Remarks on the resolution adopted by the Honourable the Board of Health of the City of New York on the 6th Nov. inst. in relation to Dr. Nicholas Chervin, a French physician. [And his inquiries into the origin of yellow fever / [Nicholas Chervin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty- one, and of the independence of the United States of Ame¬ rica, the forty-sixth. QUOD ATTESTOR. AARON H. PALMER, Master in Chancery and Notary Public. it is evidently proved by this authentic document, that my copies are correct, and that a permission for examining pub¬ lic records has been refused to a public notary, expressly because its end was to authenticate my extracts. Having thus made a clear and faithful statement of facts, let us now examine if the resolution of the honourable Board be founded on principles of justice. It will be remembered that by their resolution of the 6th of August last, the board gave me permission to have free ac¬ cess to their minutes, and to take such extracts therefrom as to me might appear proper ,* and that the Secretary should give me a certificate of the authenticity of the same. (See the Commercial Advertiser and Evening Post of the 1th inst.) Could a more unrestrictive or unconditional permission than this be granted ? I will ask every candid reader, if by this resolution of the honourable Board, I was not at full liberty to take such extracts from their minutes as might appear useful or interesting to me, and whether by so doing I must incur any censure, or forfeit the promise made to me of a certificate of authenticity ? Had I in the selection of my extracts unequivocally manifested the partiality surmised, had I suppressed every fact which might appear favourable to the doctrine of the contagion, the Board could have no reasonable objection to my conduct; all that they could do, would have been to observe, in the certificate of authenticity, that 1 had omitted or suppressed facts which, in their opinion, lead to the conclusion that the yellow fever is imported and con¬ tagious.