Medical reform; or, physiology and botanic practice for the people / [John Stevens].

  • John Stevens
Date:
1848
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Credit: Medical reform; or, physiology and botanic practice for the people / [John Stevens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION ; BEING AN IMPORTANT APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE, ON THE URGENT NECESSITY OF MEDICAL REFORM. TO REFORMERS, THE LOVERS OF TRUTH, THE FRIENDS OF SUFFERING HUMANITY. Ir has been our consolation under every difficulty, and the great source of our joy when we have triumphed over it, to be conscious that we lived at a period in human progression, when the noblest, aspirations of the mind were received by the understanding, and be- came united in the hearts of the common people—the millions, whose will is the nation’s freedom, whose power is the irresistible lever to remove every ill felt in and through every department of society. Each age has had its attractive cry, around which it rallied all its powers. Reform has been the peculiar charm of this our day and generation, often commencing with the honest convictions of a few obscure persons, or even one individual, acting as a single seed; and germinating beneath the warmth of enthusiasm that rose before the rays of truth, forthwith took root, spread its branches, and showered down its fruits in every direction. Monopoly and the baneful effects of exclusive privilege, have been uprooted, and the tree of liberty established upon their ruin, and this we have lived to behold. In Government laws, in commerce, in the safety of the subject, and the liberty of the press, and lastly, in the noble and grand achievement that has freed the people’s interchange of the staff of life. But however great and manifest the good attained in these reforms, upon the broad interest of the masses, there is yet one of deeper consideration—one reform that must prove even more near and dear