The history and statutes of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Date:
1778
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Credit: The history and statutes of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    25 tee, ordered the fervants of the houfe to affift Doftor Auftin in the execution of his office, when required. In the beginning of the year 1765, the neat flock of the Infir- mary, befides the Jamaica eftate, and other articles excepted above, was found to amount to L. 23,426 : 2 : 2. The managers, in confequence of the inconveniences which had arifen from the college of phyficians attending by monthlv rota¬ tion, having appointed two phyficians to the hofpital ; and find¬ ing fimilar inconveniences to arife from the whole body of fur- geons attending in the fame manner, elected four, to whom they committed the infpedion of the whole chirurgical department. Thefe four furgeons, named Subftitutes, were to divide the year e-‘ qually, each having his quarter, the other furgeons, or ordinaries of the incorporation likewife attending in monthly rotation. The four fubftitutes, befides their quarterly attendance, had likewife their monthly turn with the reft ; and when the month of any of the four fubftitutes fell in with his quarter, then either the next fubftitute in order was to become his affiftant, or he was to apply .for the affiftance of another for that month, that the attendance of two might at no time be wanting in the Infirmary. Befides thefe duties rattending the office of the four fubftitutes, the managers further ordered them to be prefent at all confultations which ffiould be called, either with refped to operations, or the ad- miffion of chirurgical patients into the houfe ; and committed to their care the direction of dreffers and dreffings, the records of chirurgical cafes kept by the Surgeon’s clerk, the infpedtion of the apothecary’s (hop, the care of the chirurgical inftruments for the ufe of the houfe, and, in general, every thing relating to furgery G and
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