Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1775
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t SECTION V. Advantages of the Difpenfary to domeftic fervants. SICKNESS is the lot of humanity ; and this ufeful as well as numerous part of the community, who intereft them- s' felves in their different departments for the profit and pleafure of their mailers, have a natural claim upon them for relief, when rendered incapable of labour by the attacks of ficknefs. The female fex, in particular, conflitute the majority of do¬ meftic fervants in this city ; they have been accuftomed to the plenty of their mailer’s table ; and frequently receive in¬ dulgences to which the abjedl poor have not been ufed : by this, and a continual intercourfe with people of decent man¬ ners, they acquire a degree of delicacy of body, as well as fenfibility of mind, that renders them lefs able to undergo difficul¬ ties, or expofure to the wide world. Many of them who are born with tender frames, and ]
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