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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    according to their means;—the small tradesman his half-crown or five shillings; the wealthy capitalist his five, ten, or twenty annual guineas. Does any one stand aghast at the mere mention of such formidable subscriptions ? I merely ask such a one, by what law, human or divine, should persons with the most dissimilar incomes be put upon the same uniform level? If one of your tradesmen in yonder street, with an income of three or four hundred a-year, cheerfidly gives his annual guinea, why should you, with your splendid mansion in the neighbouring square, and your thirty, fifty, or a hundred thousand of annual income, give just the same annual guinea ? Why does not his liberality shame you into deeds ot more noble generosity? An ample fund might thus be provided for the supply of certain health-giving remedies, of which the medical attendant well know s the value, but for want of which, dispensary practice is too often a solemn mockery. Of these I might instance several, but I content myself with directing special attention to the facilities it would afford for sending to the country, or the coast, such patients (and their name is Legion) as are pining away, for want, not of drugs and elegant prescriptions, but of Nature’s balmy breath, which never fans the fevered cheeks, or braces the withered frames, of the myriads who yearly sink unnoticed, from their dark and plague-haunted dwellings, into an “ ever-yawning and never-satisfied grave. Macintosh, Printer, Great Ncw-street, London.
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