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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![lOI under the microscope of those articles in which adulteration could be detected by that instrument. ... As Dr. Hassall had no chemical knowledge beyond that which had survived from his medical student days, he obtained the assistance of Dr. Letheby for that portion of the work. [But see ante, pp. 25-28.—E. G. C.] Ultimately the publication of The Lancet reports led to Parliamentary action being taken, and this resulted in legislation against the adulteration of food; the reports were subsequently collected by Dr. Hassall and published separately. . . . ‘ To him public analysts owe most of their knowledge of the microscopic structure of food substances. His activity gave articulate form to the outcry against adulteration ; he was truly the father of public analysis. In recognition of his great services he was elected the first Vice-President of the Society of Public Analysts, but he never took any active interest in the formation or actual working of the Society. ‘ To the end of his life he remained what he essentially was, a microscopist, not a chemist, or an analyst in the modern sense of the word. [Vide pp. 29 and 41.—E. G. C.] His merits are none the less for that fact, and his name will be long and gratefully remembered by the members of the analytical profession.’—The Analyst, xix. (1894), 97- [Obituary notice of Dr. Hassall.] 14. ‘ Dr. Hassall’s work in Natural History, Hygiene, on Food, in Physiology and Medicine, was so striking that his contributions to Meteorology have hardly received the recognition they deserve. His work in this direction was not merely devoted to barren observation; but he applied it to the practical objects of the preservation of health and the cure of disease. It would be difficult to find in the history of Medicine a more valuable example of the application of meteorological science than that supplied by the National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor, founded by him. . . . We cannot close this brief notice without recording one—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28989995_0121.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
