Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    rial in cholera. When the first opportunity oc- curred he relinquished, for a time, his studies as a student; and though he had a firm belief that the disease was contagious, yet he cheerfully volunteered his services, and remained almost constantly in the prison, both day and night; and to his unwearied attention to the sick, but above all to the exemplary conduct of ]\Ir. Chesterton, the governor of the pri- son, I believe we were indebted, in no small degree, for the success of our practice. I have also to express my thanks to Mr. Whitmore, as well as to Mr. Marsden, Mr. Spencer, and other gentlemen, not only for their having given this prac- tice a trial, but also for the manner in which they have expressed their conviction of its superiority to the methods of treatment in general use. I may add, that the candid and manly conduct of Mr. Wakefield, ]\Ir. Marsden, and the whole of the gen- tlemen whom I have met in that quarter, is to me some consolation for the illiberal and unfounded at- tacks to which every individual must expose him- self who ventures to appear before the public, even when he is actuated by the purest motives, or when that which he states is most strictly correct. But as I have formerly said, truth, whatever may assail it, will ultimately maintain its course, and those who attempt to impede its progress, though they may succeed for a time, yet they will at last find it as hopeless a task as it would be to prevent the moun-