A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss.

  • Moss, William.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIV
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Credit: A familiar medical survey of Liverpool: addressed to the inhabitants at large. : Containing observations on the situation of the town; the qualities and influence of the air; the employments and manner of living of the inhabitants; the water; and other natural and occasional circumstances whereby the health of the inhabitants is liable to be particularly affected... / By W. Moss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fupported and increafed by fo difmal a re- membrancer of their irreparable lofs.—Hu- manity is but too much difpofed to indulge and brood over affliction, when excited by this caufe: and the diftrefs is commonly fo poig- nant and exquifite, as to be, for a time, unap- peafable; and to interdict every adventitious incitement.—One of the Roman Emperors being afked why he fo much lamented the lofs of a near friend, fince it was irretrievable : his anfwer was—therefore he grieved.— The privacy with which funerals are now conducted, affords confiderable relief to the minds of the friends of the deCeafed. And furely every occafional and incidental means, that can be devifed, to foften the throb of genuine diftrefs, fflould be adopted with that view; and all aggravating caufes as feduloufly avoided and removed. Magistrates, and the more exalted of the Clergy, are thofe from whom we muft look for a complete reform in the inftance under our confideraticn : I doubt not its meeting with the general concurrence and recommendation ' of the Medical Faculty. BURYING the dead in Church-yards in the heart of large towns, has been univerfally difapproved