Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton].
- Clayton, Edwy Godwin.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Arthur Hill Hassall, physician & sanitary reformer : a short history of his work in public hygiene, and of movement against the adulteration of food and drugs / [Edwy Godwin Clayton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![97 3- ‘ It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of such a work as this; it attacks an evil almost universal, subtle, and dangerous m the highest degree: it points out the method'- by which the legislature might protect us from it; or if, as IS probable, our Government should consider the subject too insignificant ... at least Dr. Hassall provides for indi- viduals the means of, in some degree, guarding themselves against it, if they will take the trouble so to do. . . . We must hope that this subject will be taken up in earnest by the Government; they can plead no lack of information or advice ; both have been supplied to them abundantly by different writers, but chiefly by the painstaking, learned, and conscientious author of the work we now recommend.’— Dublin Review, xlii. (1857), 534* [Review of ‘Adulterations Detected,' 1857.] 4 . . . Already the publication of Dr. Hassall’s reports, as the Analytical Commissioner of The Lancet, has effected much good.’ — The Athenceum, February 28, 1857. [Review of ‘ Adidterations Detected,' 1857.] 5' . . The disclosures made by Dr. Hassall in The Lancet newspaper, and also before a Committee of the vHouse of Commons, revealed a state of matters in reference to the food of the people which is thoroughly disgraceful to a civilized community.’—The Scotch Thistle, June 27, 1857. [Review oi ‘ Adulterations Detected,' 1857.] 6. . . [Dr. Hassall] . . . well known by his able in- vestigations of the subject of the adulterations of food.’— Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, xvi. (1857), 185. 7- ‘ But the first systematic inquiry of real importance made iinto the subject in this country was that undertaken by an 7](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
