A letter to John Haygarth, M.D. F.R.S., London and Edinburgh, &c / from Colin Chisholm ... ; exhibiting farther evidence of the infectious nature of this fatal distemper in Granada, during 1793, 4, 5, and 6 ; and in the United States of America, from 1793 to 1805, in order to correct the pernicious doctrine promulgated by Edward Miller and other American physicians relative to the destructive pestilence.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1809
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Credit: A letter to John Haygarth, M.D. F.R.S., London and Edinburgh, &c / from Colin Chisholm ... ; exhibiting farther evidence of the infectious nature of this fatal distemper in Granada, during 1793, 4, 5, and 6 ; and in the United States of America, from 1793 to 1805, in order to correct the pernicious doctrine promulgated by Edward Miller and other American physicians relative to the destructive pestilence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    A LETTER, $c. MY DEAR SIR, Clifton, March 31, 18C8. We are, I am confident, both engaged in the same cause, the cause of truth and humanity; and I feel satisfied that whenever or wherever that cause is unjustly attacked* we shall be equally ready to vindicate and defend it. The frequent opportunities you have indulged me in of a free and reciprocal communication of sentiment on medical sub- jects, and more especially that most im- portant one, infection, and the propagation of certain descriptions of fever by contagion, leave me no room to doubt that we think alike on it. It is, no doubt, in your recollection how often we have regretted the diversity of B