Volume 3
Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom. 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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![I 12 HINTS RESPECTING fully noticed in fome of your criticlfms; but with an imprefsive ardour adequate to the imperious necefsity of animating the multi^ tude to felf-prefervation. When Herfchcll fixed the fite of the Georgium Sid us in the great volume of the heavens, you ralfed the theme of ardent praife to this unrivalled aftronomer; but what is the Georgium Sidus, in competition with the jennerian difcovery ! Has it conveyed to one human being a fingle ray of advantage? Contemplate with impartiality the latter, whofe beneficent rays are defiined to difsipate the gloomy atmofphere of peftilential morta- lity ; whofe fatal vidlims, I am bold to fug- geft, amount to 210,000 annually in Europe alone ! Does this refledlion admit of a cold- nefs of defcription ? Dip your pens in sethe- rial and indelible ink! — Imprefs your obfer- vations in charadfers legible to the mofl dif- fiant regions of the globe ] Ye](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28522084_0003_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
