Volume 1
Political medicine ; being the substance of a discourse lately delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, on medicine, considered in its relations to government and legislation / [Henry Maunsell].
- Henry Maunsell
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Political medicine ; being the substance of a discourse lately delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, on medicine, considered in its relations to government and legislation / [Henry Maunsell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![conceive. In a village of 200 or 300 inhabitants, seated upon a high road, I have known these sages to post pikemen at the outlets, for the purpose of pre- venting the passage of travellers, and to employ the police to burn articles of furniture which were being peaceably carried through the country. Ofcourse, I need not say, that as the things I refer to happened in Ireland, the natural and necessary results were the most desperate and, often, sanguinary riots. But, to be serious; how did the country suffer from these blunders ? In many towns of Ireland, (I may men- tion from memory, Sligo and Drogheda,) the popula- tion were more than decimated by the cholera of 1832. It will, perhaps, be argued, that things were no better in other countries, as France, where something like a Politico- Medical system does exist. To this I might reply, that the circumstances of the two countries are so different as not to admit of any fair comparison ; but I do not mean to stand upon this, I can, suffi- ciently for my purpose, remove the objection by stat- ing, that [am not now endeavouring to show that the system of any one country has advantages over that of any other ; but merely making an abstract case in favour of Political Medicine, which, I hope, I have not, in the instance of epidemics, failed in doing. ENDEMICS, or those diseases which are generated in particular localities, will be found to fall under the jurisdiction of Political Medicine, even in a more marked manner than that class of maladies to which I] have just alluded. It will not be necessary to adduce many facts to prove, that certain diseases are con-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33492451_0001_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
