An exposition of the dangers of interment in cities : illustrated by an account of the funeral rites and customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and primitive Christians, by ancient and modern ecclesiastical canons, civil statutes, and municipal regulations, and by chemical and physical principles / chiefly from the works of Vicq d'Azyr of France and Scipione Piattoli of Modena ; with additions by Felix Pascalis.

  • Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833.
Date:
1823
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Credit: An exposition of the dangers of interment in cities : illustrated by an account of the funeral rites and customs of the Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, and primitive Christians, by ancient and modern ecclesiastical canons, civil statutes, and municipal regulations, and by chemical and physical principles / chiefly from the works of Vicq d'Azyr of France and Scipione Piattoli of Modena ; with additions by Felix Pascalis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Catholic country. Such of them, however, as were abso- lutely requisite, have been placed in the Appendix, numeri- cally arranged. The documents at the end of the work are chiefly of local import and interest. I now beg leave to take this method of congratulating my fellow-citizens on the firm and wise plan of operations be- gun by our magistrates and the Board of Health. In en- deavouring to rescue our city from the visitation of malig- nant fevers, they have scrupulously avoided enlisting them- selves under the banners of this or that theorist on the origin of summer and fall fevers. With more prudence and philosophy, they strike at the root of every ostensible source of a calamity that more probably is the effect of a combination of several causes, than the effects of a single one. This procedure has been constituted one of their offi- cial duties by the legislature in 1813, which directed them to regulate or prevent the interment of the dead within the city.v May they continue to prosecute their task success- fully. Public officers are seldom rewarded with public ap- probation ; and the testimony of upright intentions is too often their only recompense; but I hope, that these, more fortunate than the generality, will deservedly enjoy the per- fect confidence of the community, and the harmonious con- currence of their fellow-citizens in their measures for the present emergency. New-York, July Uth, 1823.