Hydropathy, health and longevity.

  • Constantine, Joseph.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Hydropathy, health and longevity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    habits which carried him to a premature grave and gave his sisters endless trouble. Branwell's dissipated habits must have been a great trouble to Mr. Bronte, and probably changed his views with regard to the daily use of alcoholic liquors. In April, 1835, he allowed Joseph Livesey to give his famous malt lecture in Haworth Church, and about this time he turned over a new leaf and is said to have afterwards lived a strictly religious life. For the labouring classes, these were the times of long hours, small pay, and dear bread, with little or no schooling; not more than one in ten of the children were sent to a day school. School pence was wanted for bread, and parents did not realise that even a little learning might be of such great value to their children in the battle of life. I have heard ignorant parents say that they were never sent to school, and that they did not know what their children wanted with schooling or what good it could be to them. It was my great misfortune to be one of those who were not sent to a day school, but at an early age I learned to read at a small undenominational Sunday schoolroom, which had been built by the combined efforts of the poor people in the neighbourhood, the ground being given by good old John Shackleton, who also gave the stone for its erection from his quarry. A feeble attempt was made to establish a weekday school in this
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