An account of the disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary / by P. Mere Latham.

  • Peter Mere Latham
Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary / by P. Mere Latham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    PREFACE I feel it to be a duty which I owe to the Medical Profession, to give them some ac- count of the Disease lately prevalent at the General Penitentiary. I have abstained from doing so until the present time, in order that I might secure for it that attention which medical men never fail to bestow upon subjects essentially their own, when they are left entirely to themselves. So long as such questions happen, from circumstances, to engage the interest of the public, or to admit the least mixture of party-spirit, medical men can hardly feel confident of their own impartiality; and they