Gheel, the city of the simple / by the author of Flemish interiors.

  • Julia Clara Byrne
Date:
1869
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Credit: Gheel, the city of the simple / by the author of Flemish interiors. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    abolished; but it is not possible—whatever may be the good-will of those to whose care they are com- mitted—to remove the evils which still survive in their treatment; for they are absolutely inevitable under ordinary circumstances. Gheel, therefore, stands alone in its superiority; and it would be very diffi- cult, if not impossible, even to create imitations of this unique locality. Setting aside the peculiar qualities of the air and soil, to which native physicians attribute the most important properties, where could we find another village-population—much less a number of adjacent populations—willing to devote themselves to the cause, worthy to be trusted with so responsible a burden, or in every way efficient in the discharge of the duties it imposes? Tlie antecedents of Gheel are miprecedented, and they form the chief elements of its valuable actualities. We may build asylums of colossal proportions, we may extend the grounds in which they stand, to the most park-like limits, it will always be an enclosure —a prison on a noble scale, but, a prison still.
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