Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom.

  • John Coakley Lettsom
Date:
1775
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Of the improvement of medicine in London : on the basis of public good / By J.C. Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r ( 5 ) tinucd under the foftering care of their own relations, by , which love and grati¬ tude are mutually excited, and family con¬ nexions more firmly eftablifhed; and while domeftic happinefs is thus cultivated, the morals of fo ufeful and numerous a clafs of the community are preferred unaflailed and untainted. ... As fuch an extenfive plan could not be immediately carried into execution in all the adjoining parts of this great metropo¬ lis, it was thought expedient to eftablifh the firft Difpenfary in the city of London, and to fettle the limits of vifiting the fick at their own habitations, for the prefent, within the liberties thereof. The Difpenfary is fituated in Alderfgate- ftreet, where a phyfician attends at eleven o’clock every day (Sundays excepted) to give advice to fuch out-patients as fhall come recommended, and to vifit the home-pa¬ tients at the places of their abode, as the cafe may require.-By out-patients are meant