An address to the citizens of Philadelphia on the subject of establishing an asylum for the cure of victims of intemperance.

  • Henry, Alexander, 1766-1847.
Date:
1841
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to the citizens of Philadelphia on the subject of establishing an asylum for the cure of victims of intemperance. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    soothe, purify and elevate the feelings, and to give sta- bility to the future conduct of the afflicted persons themselves; and, at the same time, be in accordance with the affectionate intentions and tender solicitude of their dearest connexions and friends. Persons of the most sensitive nature would readily consent to a temporary separation for the sake of so great and permanent a good. The privation would not, after all, be as great as that absence from home, and separa- tion from family and friends, in the case in which a voyage and foreign travel are enjoined on the invalid for the recovery of his health ; whilst the probability of cure of the infirmities which induced the sufferer to take refuge in the Retreat is far greater than that, for example, of the consumptive patient, who visits a southern climate for the restora- tion of his health. In the former, the watchful guar- dianship of relatives and the kindness of friends can still be manifested in numerous and almost daily messages and little offerings of regard, and also, un- der proper regulations, in visits. The Retreat should be under the management of a resident Physician, of zeal in the cause, of medi- cal skill and enlarged benevolence, and who by a naturally amiable disposition, great self control and experience of human nature would be able to exer cise a parental influence, and obtain the respect and love of those who place themselves under his care He would study the temperament, constitution dis-