York, his subsequent tour of the States was
financially disastrous. He evidently saved
enough from the wreck, however, to start in
business, and the declining years of his eventful
life were passed in the comparative obscurity
of a little drug store in Grand Street.

As his biographer I regret to be obliged to
chronicle the fact that he made and sold an
alleged specific for the White Plague, thus
enabling his detractors to couple with his name
the word Quack. The following article, which
appeared in the New York Herald of September
1st, 1859, three days after Chabert's death,
gives further details of his activities in this
country:


We published among the obituary
notices in yesterday's Herald the death of
Dr. Julian Xavier Chabert, the ``Fire
King,'' aged 67 years, of pulmonary
consumption. Dr. C. was a native of France,
and came to this country in 1832, and was
first introduced to the public at the lecture
room of the old Clinton Hall, in Nassau
Street, where he gave exhibitions by entering
a hot oven of his own construction,
and while there gave evidence of his
salamander qualities by cooking beef