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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![45 that such a work-house for 500 paupers has beeu con- tracted for in Kent, for £4300 ; and as the assistant commissioners have recently stated, that they intend to buy land, build houses, and provide accommoda- tion for 600 of the destitute Irish poor, for £7000; we may fairly presume that they will be made equally as comfortable as the unfortunate men of Kent. But it is time for me to draw toward a conclusion ; else what was intended for a slight and hasty sketch, may increase in bulk so as far to outgrow its useful- ness. My object, from the commencement, has been, not to convey novel or systematic information upon the important subjects to which I have referred, but rather to block out such a rough outline of Political Medicine as may, perhaps, induce those whose inte- rest, duty, and desire it must be to promote the com- mon weal, to take into their consideration the propri- ety of encouraging it as a pursuit. Should I succeed in doing this, or should I even attain the length of kindling a wholesome ambition in the breasts of those members of the medical profession, whom fortune, or their own industry, has blessed with means of enjoy- ing an honorable leisure, ] have little doubt, that no long time will elapse until my views shall be acted upon, and a literal and physical interpretation will supersede the figurative and moral one which has hitherto been applied to the maxim, sai^os popdh 8UPREMA LEX. THE END.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2135571x_0097.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
