An inquiry into the morbid effects of deficiency of food, chiefly with reference to their occurrence amongst the destitute poor : also practical observations on the treatment of such cases / by Richard Baron Howard.

Date:
1839
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Credit: An inquiry into the morbid effects of deficiency of food, chiefly with reference to their occurrence amongst the destitute poor : also practical observations on the treatment of such cases / by Richard Baron Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTRODUCTION. An Inquiry into the morbid effects of deficiency of food is a subject, in which all who have any sym- pathy for the poor must take a deep interest, and one to which no man endued with the common feelings of humanity can be indifferent. In a country where provision is made by the legislature for the destitute and indigent, and where the assist- ance of benevolent individuals is ever ready to be extended to the deserving in distress, it is highly desirable that the constitutional indications of de- fective nutrition should be well understood: in order that those who are really suffering may be promptly relieved, and any attempt at imposture be readily detected. Yet there is reason to believe that the public in general have very inaccurate ideas of the marks by which this state is distinguished, and the singular symptoms which often attend it; and there can be no doubt that much suffering and loss of life would be spared, if the subject were better understood. Numbers of our fellow creatures have been refused that timely aid, of which they were in extreme need, B