Euthanasia, or, Medical treatment in aid of an easy death / By William Munk.

  • William Munk
Date:
1887
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Credit: Euthanasia, or, Medical treatment in aid of an easy death / By William Munk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    process of death loses much of its horror on a near viewT ^ Physicians, the clergy, and intelligent nurses—all, indeed, who are practically conversant with the dying—testify to the truth of this statement. Sir Henry Halford, towards the close of his medical career, and after opportunities of observa- tion, such as have fallen to the lot of few physicians, expressed his surprise that of the great number to whom it had been his professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, so few exhi- bited signs of severe suffering. Sir Benjamin Brodie, whose experience of death from surgical disease was second to none, states that, according to his observa- tion, the mere act of dying is seldom, in any sense of the word, a very painful I John Ferriar, M.D., On the Treatment of the Dying, ut supra^ p. 191.
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