A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    supplied and with no other condition, but the one of pay- ing the amount of the first cost after they had affected the sale, and besides when they had not finished the quantity they had received, the remainder was taken from them at the first price, to prevent from being exposed to any loss. To demonstrate also that the distributor of the beneficent liquid, did not wish to have himself thought to have any interest in the business, no phial was suffered to be sold in the house where the generous distribution was made. Having taken all this precaution, one ought to have thought also not to have been suspected of having any direct or indirect interest in such considerable busi- ness. On that score experience has also proved the con- trary of the expectation, and that all the precaution was taken in vain, to prevent the charitable distribution from being disgraced by the assertion made that it had a share in the profit of the great speculation. But as ac- cording to the present mode of human doctrine, no- thing can be done without gain, and, that the one made by the selling of those phials is veraciously computed to be one of the supporters of the gratuitous pursuit, and that to pretend to persuade of the contrary selfishness, spite of the disinterested views guiding the proceeding should be useless, obstinately insisting always that every thing must be done for profit ; therefore we must pro- ceed to the great one, that undeniably must be made by selling the aforesaid articles, and to sum up the great ben-, efit issuing from the prosperous traffic, if the gain-makers and positive asserters had taken the trouble to make in- quiry of these, who had the lucrative business in hand, they would have received correct information on the matter. Therefore we are obliged to give some idea of the great advantage those have received who have supplied with phials the destitute of them. And as one must presume that all those who made application were not in want of the articles, making use of the knowledge one must have concerning the demand of it, one is au- thorised to establish the average of the number sold eve- ry day in prosperous times from eighteen to twenty-four, and that one may pledge one's self that the computation,