A treatise on the state of the poor in sickness, with the proposal of a plan for their relief; selected from a small volume of essays ... / And now edited separately, with some additions.

Worthington, Richard

Date:: 1804

Credit: A treatise on the state of the poor in sickness, with the proposal of a plan for their relief; selected from a small volume of essays ... / And now edited separately, with some additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$among the poor, are a disgrace to our land. One might almost expect them to insinuate a pang into the heart of a practised Overseer; such an one, I mean, as in the discharge of his of* flee has seldom manifested any symtoms of a keen or morbid sensibility. I dont mean to imply, that, in such cases of casualty, a Surgeon is never called in by some charitable neighbour, nor, that, in compliance with his own feelings, he never hastens to the assistance of a mang¬ led fellow mortal : but, I affirm, that such mangled person, instead of finding in his pa¬ rish that prompt assistance which the urgency and pressure of his misfortunes importu¬ nately solicit, is frequently put into so course and unadapted a vehicle as a farmer's cart \ and, whatever may be the nature of the casualty which has befallen the sufferer ; how many and keen soever may be the pangs which accompany rough and violent motion; however great may be the evils of delay, between the receiving of the injury and the application$