Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the great room of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi. Ward was a fat heavy man, and was drawn about in a shewy carriage with four horses, in the style of a state-coach, but hung so low as to require only a single step. When he at- tended George the Second to administer his essence for the head-ach, on leaving the room, he turned round abruptly on the king, and pro- ceeded to the door. Being reminded in a whisper, by the vice-chamberlain, that he ought not to turn his back to the king, he replied, in his usual loud and gruff voice, “ the king seeing of my back is a matter of no consequence; but the breaking of my neck by falling backwards is of consequence, not only to me, but to the poor.” The latter part of this speech refers to an allowance, which his majesty gave him, of an apartment in the almonry office, Whitehall, where he attended on certain days in the week, and gave his medicines to poor patients, at his majesty’s expence. This apartment was filled with the most costly articles of china and japan ware, in the collection of which, he spent much money; and he also engaged in attempts, along with other persons, to manufacture porcelain and salt-petre in England. His most successful chemical manufacture
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