Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson].

  • Charles Thompson
Date:
[1920?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Roman oculists' medicine stamps and collyria / [C.J.S. Thompson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    acknowledgment to be sent to a Poste Restante in London,, which we were only too pleased to accompany with our hearty thanks. Another series of curious gifts came from an individual unknown, whose representative called at the hospital one night, a few days after the Zeppelin raid, when one of the raiders had been brought down for the first time. He said, that a friend of his, a Galician Pole, had empowered him to give five pounds to a war charity for every Zeppelin brought down on British soil. This he divided with another hospital, and at once gave us a cheque for the amount. After each successive raid, when a Zeppelin w7as brought down, our friend regularly called and left the apportioned amount. We have no idea even now of the identity of the giver, but take this opportunity of thanking him. During the time of the enlistment of men under the Derby scheme, the sum of 2s. 8d. was left at the door one night, wrapped in a piece of paper, being the recruiting fee received by the anonymous donor, after his attestation. Gifts of money, or in kind, however small, were always welcome, and the offering of a box of matches brought by two ragged little urchins to the door one night, and the gift of 13s. from twenty-one little girls of the Wealdstone High St. Girls’ School, who had resolved “not to buy or eat any sweets during Lent in 1917, but give the money instead for the benefit of the wounded soldiers,” were as welcome as the largest amounts received. We owe another unlooked-for donation to our funds to the air-raids. This was sent as a thank offering from London Jews who had taken refuge and were afforded shelter in Harrow, during the successive night raids made by the enemy aero¬ planes in the Spring of 1918. Perhaps the most gruesome gift received was a parcel con¬ taining two shrouds, which was handed in at the door one day. We are glad to say they were never required.