Death and disease behind the counter / by Thomas Sutherst.

  • Sutherst, Thomas.
Date:
1884
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Credit: Death and disease behind the counter / by Thomas Sutherst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the earth and sea of the globe. 1 have gone through many countries and seen the condition of many millions—I may say hundreds of millions—of the human race, I have gone through countries where despotism is untrammelled. I have seen super- stition in its most awful and horrid, and uneradicated forms. I have seen various forms of bad government and various states of society. I have mingled with the natives, and have as far as pos- sible made myself acquainted with their feelings ; and I am bound to say that from the time I left my native land until, in the mercy of God, I returned to it again, I have seen no class of men doomed to anything like the drudgery and toil endured by the well-dressed, respectable, and meritorious assistants of our own country.” LIBRARY