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one of the beds ; but he never was attacked by the disease. 

 There were forty French physicians, many of them professors, 

 who also observed the malady. They made experiments upon 

 themselves, by inoculation with morbid matter taken after 

 death, and also on pigeons, rabbits, &c.; but in no case was 

 the disease communicated. There were thirty attendants, 

 besides medical men, and only one of them became aftected ; 

 but he was a most incorrigible drunkard, who was compelled 

 to sleep for two nights on a stone floor, without any covering, 

 by his master, a Polish apothecary. It has been said that the 

 disease was communicated from the Russians to the Poles ; 

 but the chief physician of the Polish army has assured him 

 that the origin of the disease was solely referable to a de- 

 tachment of the army, which was compelled to make a forced 

 march of about fifty miles without halting, and then to en- 

 camp in a marshy situation. Next morning fifty of the men 

 had died of cholera. He had also observed the disease for 

 fourteen years in India, and was convinced that it was not 

 contagious, and could not be restrained in its progress by 

 quarantine. 



Mr. Gilbert Burnett believed that it was contagious. All 

 contagious diseases, such as typhus, small pox, cholera, were 

 first produced by exhalation or miasma from the earth, and 

 were infectious, and contagious under circumstances of indi- 

 vidual predisposition, bad air, filth, &-c. There were some 

 persons who did not take such diseases, but still there was no 

 doubt of their contagiousness. It was much better for the 

 board of health to act on the safe side, as they had done, 

 than to use no precaution. 



Dr. Granville observed that the contagionists had given up 

 the opinion that the disease was communicated by merchan- 

 dize, as might be seen by Dr. Barry's last report; and letters 

 were no longer fumigated. 



Dr. George Gregory then moved an adjournment, which 

 was carried. 



On Saturday, Nov. 19, many of the most eminent sur- 

 geons of the metropolis attended. 



Dr. Copeland said that two of the Indian boards held chol- 

 era to be contagious, while Mr. Jameson, the officer of the 

 third board, contradicted himself, as he was, and was not, a 

 contagionists. He (Dr. C.) was convinced that the Indian 

 cholera, and the prevailing pestilential epidemic were differ- 

 ent diseases. The disease which had now traversed many 

 parts of Europe, and was now dreaded so much in this coun- 

 try, was a malady sui generis. He had suffered from the dis- 



