A letter to Sir James M'Grigor, M.D. F.R.S. C.T.S., director general of military hospitals, &c. on the sanitary management of the Gibraltar fever / by David Barry.

  • Barry, David, Sir, 1780-1835.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A letter to Sir James M'Grigor, M.D. F.R.S. C.T.S., director general of military hospitals, &c. on the sanitary management of the Gibraltar fever / by David Barry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    object—to save the susceptible from being attacked by the disease; and in the present state of our knowledge of it, none will deny, that prevention is better than an attempt to cure. They were forced upon my attention chiefly during my late residence in Gibraltar. What I then observed at the bedside of the sick, and in the dead house : the facts which came to my knowledge, during an active participa- tion of five months, in 1829, in the labours of the three commissions appointed to investigate the history of the disease on the spot: the results, in short, of the most la- borious and minute inquiries ever accomplished on any similar occasion, have impressed the fullest conviction on my mind, that the means by which the march of this epi- demic may be effectually arrested, and the people saved from its ravages, should it again break out in that fortress, need be no longer doubtful. From the measures which you have long since adopted, to favor the advancement of science amongst the medical officers of the army, and from the satisfaction with which you have always viewed their efforts to promote that ad- vancement, and to contribute to the good of humanity, 1 feel confident that my little outline of a Code Sanitaire for Gibraltar, will be indulgently received, and that my motives for attempting a task, which might have been so much more ably executed by many others, will be favorably appre- ciated. I have the honour to be. Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, DAVID BARRY, m.d. Physician to the Forces. Welbeck street; 14 July, 1830. To Sir James M'Grigor, Director General, &c.