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 atmosphere, and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community / by a professional man of thirty years experience, in various parts of the world.

  • Gillkrest, J. (James), -1853.
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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 atmosphere, and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community / by a professional man of thirty years experience, in various parts of the world. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Nichols and Sons, printers, 1831.

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57 pages ; 21 cm

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'The first series of these letters, consisting of five, appeared in the months of September and October of the present year ; five others, written in a more popular form, were inserted in a newspaper from time to time ... a few additions and alterations ... have been made' - t.p. verso
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