A letter to Sir J.T.B. Duckworth, Bart., President of the Devon & Exeter Hospital &c., &c., on the exclusion, by statute, of practising medical men, being donors & subscribers, from the committee of the Devon and Exeter Hospital / by T. Shapter, physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital.

  • Thomas Shapter
Date:
1857
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Credit: A letter to Sir J.T.B. Duckworth, Bart., President of the Devon & Exeter Hospital &c., &c., on the exclusion, by statute, of practising medical men, being donors & subscribers, from the committee of the Devon and Exeter Hospital / by T. Shapter, physician to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To Srr Joun Tuomas Buiter Dvcxwortu, Bart, President of the Devon and Exeter Hospital. Sir, I venture to entreat your attention to the following statement, in the hope that, through your influence and interposition, it may receive the liberal and favourable consideration of the Governors of the Institution over which you pre- side. On the revision of the Statutes of the Devon and Exeter Hospital, in 1849, a new element was introduced, viz.: the direct exclusion, by Statute, of the whole of that class of persons which comprises the “ Practising Physician, Surgeon, and Apothecary,”’ from a seat at “the Committee,” to which is delegated “the management of the aftairs of the Hospital,”? When this enactment was made, though fully appreciating both its imjustice and general im- policy, yet, as I considered there was some per- sonal wrong done by it towards myself, I forbore to offer any remonstrance on the subject; nor should I now, probably, have advanced this, had not the existence of such a law amongst the Statutes of the Devon and Exeter Hos- pital been recently adduced, at a Court of Go-
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