Newcastle Dispensary, 1827
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Image from page 570 of "Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed" (1895)Identifier: menofmarktwixtty01welf Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmenofmarktwixtty01welf">Men of mark 'twixt Tyne and Tweed Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1895">1895 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890">1890s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorWelford__Richard__1836_1919">Welford, Richard, 1836-1919 Subjects: Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon__W__Scott">London, W. Scott Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorRobarts___University_of_Toronto">Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorUniversity_of_Toronto">University of Toronto View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/menofmarktwixtty01welf/menofmarktwixtty01welf#page/n570/mode/1up" >Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/menofmarktwixtty01welf" >Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidmenofmarktwixtty01welf">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/menofmarktwixtty01welf/menofmarktwixtty01welf#page/n570/mode/1up" >view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ctors should be kept, from which thenature of epidemics might be ascertained, the history of diseases beillustrated, and the success of different modes of treatment becomemore accurately known. He also drew up and distributed amongthe poor people who received relief from the institution, rules forpreventing contagion, but the funds of the charity did not enable him JOHN CLARK. 551 to carry his advice further, and a proposal which he made in 1779 fora general inoculation in order to reduce the mortality from small-poxin Newcastle had to be abandoned. For many years the success of the Dispensary (removed toLow Friar Street, as shown in the engraving) depended chieflyon Dr. Clarks exertions, and the annual reports of the institutionwere invariably from his pen. His leisure he devoted to study; andtaking up the subject of febrile disease, of which he had had muchexperience during his voyages, and afterwards among the Newcastlepoor, he issued in 1780 a book entitled Observations on Fevers. Text Appearing After Image: Three years later he published a posthumous tract, by Dr. DugaldLeslie, on a contagious catarrh which had raged during the pre-ceding summer, and having been in the meantime elected aphysician to the Infirmary, he issued, in 1792, a revised edition ofhis book on the diseases of hot climates, to which he added his workon fevers. From this time, the confidence of the public in hisabilities daily increased, and soon put him in possession of as ex-tensive a business as had ever fallen to the share of a medicalpractitioner in the North of England. Next to the management of the Dispensary, the successful workingof the Infirmary was an object of Dr. Clarks concern. By disuse 552 JOHN CLARK. and lapse of time, some of the statutes of that noble institution hadbecome unsuitable and inefifective. A report upon the defects of thechanty was presented to the governors by the doctor in November,1800. Some of the wards were too large, and incapable of beingproperly ventilated; no separation of medic Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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