The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder.

  • Turner, J. Edward, 1822-1889.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The history of the first inebriate asylum in the world / by its founder [Jonathan Edward Turner]. An account of his indictment, also a sketch of the Woman's national hospital, by its founder. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    received control, medical treatment, and cure within their walls. It matters not in what direction this reve- nue is appropriated, it belongs exclusively to the medical treatment of the disease it creates. If the State ap])ro- priates it to other objects, the State should provide for the cure of the inebriates from a general fund. Nothing short of this can cancel the State’s oljligation, and pre- serve its honor and integrity. “ The government of France, which has so long l>een celebrated tor its humane and medical institutions, the nation that founded and built the first insane asylum, has never turned a deaf ear to the applications made by its scientific and medical men for assistance in founding hospitals and institutions of charity. France, whether at peace or at war, with her treasury full or dejdeted, has ahvays found money enough for every object Avhich her leading men have considered to be important to the well-being of society, and to the j^reservation of the health and lives of her subjects. We hope that our State will imitate the nolde and liberal policy of France, in first providing for all of her medical and humane institutions liefore extending her State improvements, lias not the State an interest in caring for the inebriate who has once presided over its government as its chief magistrate, sat upon its bench as its leading judge, pleaded at its l)ar, officiated at the sacred desk, instructed and delighted the student? Is it not more im])ortant to save tlie lives of such men to the State and to the M’orld, than that of the insane convict in our ])risons? Has not the State a o-reater interest in the medical treatment of O the drunkard Avhich will rescue him from a ])remature grave than in the conqdetion of her canals ? In j)lacing this Asylum in the front rank of the charities of the age, we would not diminish the importance of other great