Letter

Johnston, M to James C. Morton, March 16, 1882

Author

Johnston, M

Recipient

James C. Morton

Date

March 16, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure in No. 138.]

Dr. Johnston to Mr. Morton.

Paris, March 16, 1882.

Dear Sir: I have the honor and the pleasure to inform you that after a full discussion of the question of trichinæ in connection with American pork at the National Academy of Medicine of Paris, a discussion which ran through several sittings, that body has come to a decision which fully justifies the views your legation has maintained on this question.

The Academy of Medicine of France is an official body authorized to answer in an official manner the questions on sanitary measures propounded to it by the government; and its decisions, when uttered in a clear and decided manner, as in the present case, always meet with the deference on the part of the government to which they are entitled.

I subjoin the declaration voted by the academy.

I have, &c.,

W. E. JOHNSTON, M. D.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.