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 / by H. Maunsell, M.D.
- 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 / by H. Maunsell, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![44 5. Heaps of refuse and rubbish, vegetable and animal remains, at the bottom of close courts and In comers. [See Report of the Poor Law Commissioners rslmtive to certain charge* which have been disaliowed by the Auditors of Unions in England and Wales.] When such is the state of Loudon at the present moment, it may be superfluous to allude to the condition of Irish towns; yet, I cannot pass over, without a word of notice, the disgraceful condi- tion in which many parts of Dublin are permitted to remain, and that too, notwithstanding the exaction, from its impoverished citizens, of a ruinous and most exorbitant impost, entitled, by a singularly infelicitous Hibernicism, A tax for paving and cleansing. And why is such a state of things allowed to conti- nue ? Simply because, in latter days, those who should have assumed the useful and honorable position of leaders of the medical profession, have too often failed to use the opportunities which their success in life has opened to them, of raising their profession and them- selves in public estimation, by engaging in the per- formance of public duties. Simply, because such gentlemen have been fighting with their juniors for the paltry gains of their trade, instead of employing in the service of the community and of their own repu- tation, and, as a natural consequence, that of their profession, that leisure which their early success would have allowed them to enjoy, and that practical wis- dom, medical and worldly, which it was, at least,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2135571x_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
