Notice of Dr Guggenbühl's hospital for infant cretins.

Date:
[1850?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notice of Dr Guggenbühl's hospital for infant cretins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    making, under the superintendence of the Baron de Funchtersleben, but no establishment has yet been made; and through the mountains of Cau¬ casus inquiries are going on by the great Russian oculist, Piragoff, whose name is so well known to science. The king of Sardinia also has taken up the subject with royal munificence, and ordered an investigation of every parish throughout his dominions, which has been now at work for many months, and the report of which is expected to be published speedily. Dr Guggenbuhl’s second report, as yet only published in German, is accompanied by a very large number of letters of affection and encour¬ agement, addressed to him from all parts of the continent by men of science, learning, philanthropy, and Christian principle, many of whom have visited the Abendberg, and give their witness to its success. They are in some instances accompanied by the diplomas of different learned societies. It is now time to close our humble tribute to the beauty and the im¬ portance of Dr Guggenbiihl’s bold undertaking, in a medical, a scientific, a philanthropic, a political, and, above all, in a Christian point of view; and we can fearlessly call on all those in our own happy land, where cretinism and goitres are unknown, to whom the present and future welfare of mankind is dear, to come forward with the abundant riches with which prosperity and commerce have blessed us, so different from the scanty resources of poor revolutionised Switzerland, and help one of the noblest and the most unselfish enterprizes that the age can boast of. Let not his confidence in the sympathy and the assistance of the wise and the good of every country be disappointed, but let those who are un¬ scathed by such afflictions build here an altar of thanksgiving to God.* * A large number of the children admitted are very poor, and many pay nothing; the benevolence of the founder preventing his turning them away from his door. ANDREW JACK, PRINTER.