Sanitary economics, or, Our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / by Alexander P. Stewart.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Sanitary economics, or, Our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / by Alexander P. Stewart. 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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    The following observations, embodying views, regard- ing the present system of dispensary management and its consequences, which I had often urged during the four previous years on the attention of my friends, were drawn up for publication seventeen months ago. I was then for the first time made aware, by the perusal of a letter in one of the medical journals,* that so distinguished a public functionary as Mr. Chadwick was favourable to the establishment of self- supporting dispensaries. I subsequently discovered that Mr. Henry L. Smith, of Southam, in Warwick- shire, had been endeavouring, for upwards of twenty- six years, to inculcate, both by precept and example, the very principles I had been attempting to set forth. Having just completed the fifth year of my dispensary toils and pleasures, (for to those who value “the blessing of him that was ready to perish,” the labour has its pleasmes,) I have drawn out the musty manu- script from its hiding-place, and with a few alterations send it forth to the world. Should it appear to any that 1 have studied plainness of speech and illustration * Lancet, June 10, 1848. A 2
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