Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg.
- Samuel Gee
- Date:
- 1915
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee ; with recollections by J. Wickham Legg. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![LETTERS [The Spectator, and, in more modern times, Cardinal Newman, were of opinion that the true character of men may be discovered in their letters. In this case it is unfortunate for us that so few of Gee’s letters have survived. Thus little room for a choice remains. I am here giving all that I can come across.] Part of a Letter written to a man who had resigned a post at St. Bartholomew s Hospital. Dec. 22-86. No doubt many expectants at S. B. H. were glad to hear of your resignation. But I was not. The struggle for life is so hard, that those in the medical profession who are able to care for anything but making money are quickly becoming very few. The learned physician is almost extinct. And I am sorry for it, because the rank which the profession takes in the world depends chiefly upon its physicians. • ••••, You will be sorry to hear that my mother died three weeks ago: she had an attack of hemiplegia, & lingered only three days. She had passed her 89th. birthday. I have parted with my house at Hythe: for some reasons I am sorry, but, on the whole, it had become almost impossible to keep the children there much longer, on account of their education.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31355912_0409.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
