Memoir on the surgical diseases of the poor, addressed to the surgeons, clergy, and heritors, in the remote parts of the country.

  • Bell, John, 1763-1820.
Date:
1808
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Credit: Memoir on the surgical diseases of the poor, addressed to the surgeons, clergy, and heritors, in the remote parts of the country. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    MEMOIR ON THE SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE POOR, ADDRESSED TO THE SURGEONS, CLERGY, AND HERITORS, IN THE REMOTE PaRTS OF THE COUNTRY. M p I address you on a fubjed which well deferves the attention of the Public, and of thofe efpecially who are the natural guardians of the Peafantry and labouring Order of Society. And as it is my purpofe to devote a portion of every future day of my life to this kind of charity, I feel that I have a claim upon your attention, which I urge the more confidently, becaufe I plead in behalf of the Poor, of a de- fcription of Poor, who, being afflided with tumors and other furgical difeafes, can not feign a mifery which they do not feel, nor fue for a charity of which they are unworthy: 1 claim this privilege in right of my Profeffion, which is a liberal as well as a learned one, and there is no well difpofed member of it, who is not in the daily pradice of giving his time and labour, medicine and charity, to many who become known to him only when aflailed at once by poverty and difeafe.—Thefe irrefiftible calls engage every benevolent member of our profeffion in fcenes of diftrefs, where he fees, what is I fear unknown to the Public, how many of the lower claffes of fociety die of difeafes which a little charitable care, a little timely help, and a juft forbearance with the prejudices of uneducated men, might prevent. There are many natural caufes to account for the mcft unfightly and loathfome difeafes being found chiefly among the lower orders. Scrophula, the prevailing difeafe of our cold moift climate, afifeds the glands, the bones, and the joints ;—the peafantry, efpecially in the higher parts of the country, are ill fed, and always ex- po fed to the inclemencies of the weather ;—and workmen of every defcription are fubjed to falls, blows, and drains in labour; and often a flight expofure to cold, or an unufual drain in labour, lays the beginnings of an incurable and fatal difeafe,. A. Strahan and Preflon, Printers (street, London.