Volume 1

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science. 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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    IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF POVERTY. S fever, or any infe6Hoiis clifeafe, is once Intro- duced, it extends its malignity, and augments defolation and mifery; for the arm of the father upon which a family of helplefs chil- dren naturally depends for fupport, is thus equally profirate with the babe at the bread, Sicknefs under every exterior comfort excites our folicitude and concern; but what a pic- ture of human woe is exhibited, when want, penury, and pain, conflitute the pillow! The benevolence of this nation is great be- yond comparifon ; and when real didrefs is known, fome tender bofom overflows with comfort and fuccour; but the chief exam- ples of mifery are unknown, and unrelieved; many there are too dififldent to apply for aid, or ignorant how to do it; fome of thefe pine away in folltary want, till death clofes their fufferings; numbers however, rather than filently differ their hufbands, their wives, and their children, utterly to perifli, fupplicate our aid in the public dreets and private ave- nues ; but unfortunately for them, tlie preva- B 2 lent
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