Letters : [v.p.], to Samuel Jackson, Philadelphia, Pa., 1821-1832.

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Letters : [v.p.], to Samuel Jackson, Philadelphia, Pa., 1821-1832.

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Five letters from Nicholas Chervin to Samuel Jackson, 1821-1832, concerning Chervin's 1821 survey on contagiousness of yellow fever and gastroenteritis [cholera morbus]. One letter includes Jackson's copy of letter received from Isaac Hiester concerning yellow fever in Germantown, Pa. Original letter from Hiester to Jackson catalogued as MSS 2/0143-01.

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Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872

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Hiester, Isaac, -1855

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Chervin, Nicholas, 1783-1843

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Nicholas Chervin was a French physician and yellow fever researcher. Chervin was an ardent believer in the non-contagiousness of yellow fever. He wrote several monographs on the subject and campaigned for the elimination of quarantine on the basis of his research. From 1820 to 1822, Chervin wrote to physicians in most of the port cities of the East Coast of the United States, from Portland, Maine, to New Orleans, Louisiana, gathering information regarding the experiences of each physician with y...