Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease.

  • Gilbert, Henry.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Pulmonary consumption; its prevention & cure : established on new views of the pathology of the disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    the town, and while securing themselves from the inroads of danger, and even when in some safe retreat, would not fail to lament the fate of those left behind. Here the fear of conta- gion very naturally creates alarm for their own safety, but still the praiseworthy and humane feeling of pity for those necessarily exposed to its influence, does not cease when they themselves are remote from danger. Might we not naturally expect that a similar spirit of commiseration would display itself, in behalf of the thousands that are annually falling victims to that never-ceasing, and hitherto most mortal, of all maladies—pulmonary consumption? Were cholera to manifest itself, public measures would be instantly adopted to protect life; but consumption is permitted to ravage our cities, and carry off whole families, without resistance or apparent regret. With the exception of two small and poorly-supported In- firmaries, in London, whose means of relief are totally disproportioned to the counteraction of the ravages of this dire malady, there exists not in Great Britain a single institution exclusively devoted to its treatment, whether preventive or curative. The only charitable mode of accounting for such