The first [-second] medical report of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, presented to the Committee of Management, by the physicians of the institution.

  • Brompton Hospital
Date:
1849-1863
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Credit: The first [-second] medical report of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, presented to the Committee of Management, by the physicians of the institution. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be received, not as including all the facts concerning every Consumptive Patient relieved by your Institution, but as containing such of them as have been carefully observed in 4,358 cases—a number greater, as regards Consumption, than has heretofore been analyzed for scientific purposes, and having claims to more attention, from its including in it only those in whom the existence of the disease admitted of no doubt. The Report, though it does not embrace all the points on which it is desir¬ able to make enquiries respecting Phthisis, many of which must be left to the individual labours of the Medical Officers, will, we trust, be found to furnish information calculated to advance Medical Knowledge, and at the same time to interest the friends of the charity. In conclusion, we beg to observe that measures are in progress for ensuring such regularity and correctness in the Hospital Records, as will enable us to furnish in future a medical and statistical report at fixed periods. We have the honour to be. Gentlemen, Your obedient Servants, Hamilton Roe, M.D. Richd. P. Cotton, M.D, Theoph. Thompson, M.D, Richard Quain, M.D. George Cursham, M.D, John J. Bowie, M,D. Hospital for Consumption^ Brompton. April, 1849.