Joseph Rogers, M.D. : reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers.

  • Rogers, Joseph, 1820 or 21-1889.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Joseph Rogers, M.D. : reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer / edited with a preface, by Prof. Thorold Rogers. 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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    PREFACE. The author of the brief narrative which I have edited, and have seen through the Press, passed away before the printing of his work was com- pleted. What he wrote was composed under the presence of a mortal disease, the issue of which he clearly foresaw. But he was unwilling to quit life without leaving behind him some record of the evils with which he grappled, of the obstacles which he had to encounter, and of the changes which he strove to effect. He might indeed, and with the acquiescence of the profession which he honoured, have claimed the credit of those great reforms in the treatment of the sick poor, and in the status of his professional brethren,to which the labours of his life were directed; hut he has preferred to give a narrative of his expe- riences, and to leave his reputation to the members of the great and beneficent calling which he followed,