Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.

  • Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Date:
1845
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Credit: Confessions of a water-patient : in a letter to W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    r A WATER-PATIENT. 7 And Hook jested on the bed of death, as none but he could jest. And Hood ! who remembers not the tender pathos, the exqui.site humanity, which spoke forth from liis darkened room ? 1 Alas ! what prolonged pangs, what I heavy lassitude, what death in life did these men endure ! Here we are, Mr. Editor, in these days of cant and jargon, preaching up the education of the mind, forcing our children under melon-frames, and bab- bling to the labourer and mechanic, “ Read, and read, and read,” as if God had not given us muscles, and nerves, and bodies, subjected to exquisite pains as pleasiires—as if the body wei’c not