Sanitary economics: or, our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / [Alexander Patrick Stewart].

  • Stewart, Alexander P. (Alexander Patrick), 1813-1883
Date:
1849
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Credit: Sanitary economics: or, our medical charities, as they are, and as they ought to be / [Alexander Patrick Stewart]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the expense of that suavity and gentleness which to them would have been more persuasive, let them not blame the cause for what they may deem the unskilfulness of its advocate. At the same time, let them bear in mind that these pages are intended much less for the keenly sensitive, than for those who tolerate or even approve of the present vicious state of things; and that an appeal which would carry con¬ viction to one class of minds would to another and much larger class act as a soothing opiate. The com¬ placent acquiescence of the public in what I believe to be a great and growing evil implies, to my mind, a blunted acuteness of perception that calls for language rather forcible than smooth. And had I not felt deeply conscious that “ I have my quarrel just,” that the social mischief of which I treat is of such dimen¬ sions as far to outweigh all considerations of personal wrong, and that I plead for the best interests, not oidy of a liberal profession, but of the sons of toil, and of the entire community, I had shrunk from expressing myself with that freedom which, it humbly appears to me, the occasion requires. Grosvenor-street, Nov. 20, 1849.