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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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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    SECTION VII. Utility of admitting Surgery. A General Difpenfary for relieving the poor at their own habitations, is but a modern inftitution, different from every other charity eftablifhed in this king¬ dom ; the governors, therefore, acfted with greater circumfpecftion, refpedting the in- difcriminate admiffion of patients, during the infancy of fo novel a plan. Perfec¬ tion is not the production of a day; it is experience that directs an accurate archi¬ tect in railing a ftupendous edifice upon a well-laid foundation j and we have now fufficient ground to decide upon the pro¬ priety of admitting chirurgical patients as well as medical. The governors of the WeftminfterDifpenfary, emboldened by the fuccefs of this prior eftablifhment in the city of London, from the firft ventured to adminifter relief to every malady to which the human frame is liable; and the rapid progrefs of this inftitution of but the other F 2 day.
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