Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart.

  • Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, 2nd Baronet
Date:
1817
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the alarming progress of the gaol or typhus fever : with a summary of means of received practice for the treatment of the disease, and preventing its further contagion / by Sir G.O. Paul, bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    33/38 page 33
    That cold indifference obfervable in the rank of men, to whom the more liberal have in too many in- fiances devolved the care of the poor, it is not necef- € fary to impute to inhumanity or hardnefs of heart- In¬ attentive to caufes, it is but too natural for them to con- fider the miferies of their unfortunate fellow creatures as the fcourge of an offended Deity, or as neceffary at¬ tendants on the human ftate, which have their end, as their beginning, in the ordinary courfe of things* From this calm fiate of unconcern it‘ is neceffary to awake them. Where contagion is become gene¬ ral, it is a dangerous confidence to await the period of its felf extinction. Such an event isdoubtJefs within the power of an Omnipotent Providence ; but, as it is not within the common courfe of natural effects, it is a thoughtlefs prefumption to rely upon it. u Many countries (fays Dr. Lind) might in all u probability have efcaped the dreadful fcourge of pef» St tilenee by taking proper meafures on its firft appear- “ ance; if on fuch occafions the incredulity of a few “ had not generally been fogreat, as at its firfi breaking u forth to deem it a fever void of infe&ion, becaufe tc no marks of contagion appeared on the dead bodies, <c becaufe its progrefs was flow, or becaufe it raged chiefly amongft the poorer fort, and might be owing “ to poverty, corrupted blood, &c.”* Wherever it is thought neceffary to act on a ge¬ neral plan, the firfi object to be attended to, is cc th$ * Dr. Lind, p. 994. <€ cutting
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3