The history of St. George's Hospital / [George C. Peachey].
- Peachey, George C. (George Charles), 1862-1935.
- Date:
- 1910-1914
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The history of St. George's Hospital / [George C. Peachey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![glad to afford my small assistance to anything that has the face of charity, and nothing should make me cease to continue it but the strong reasons I have now to fear, that this once noble design will soon change from an hospital for relief into a school for experiments. I am, gentlemen, Your most humble servant, (Signed) Burlington. To which the following reply was sent : [To the Earl of Burlington.] My Lord, It is with particular concern we find by your lord- ship’s letter your resolution to withdraw your subscription. We make little doubt but a short time will satisfy your lord- ship that the patients are treated with so much humanity and care as never to give room for the least suspicion of the hospital’s becoming a school of experiments. We return your lordship our sincere thanks for the goodness you have already shown to this charity, and hope your lordship will find the design of it justly executed, and will be so good as to alter your resolution, etc. In a letter from Mr. J. P. Yvounet, also preserved in the Minutes, he says (inter alia) : “ I should have continued my little services for the poor had I found that everybody had acted in the same disin- terested manner. It is with no small regret that I perceive that the peace and harmony we at first set out with has not continued,” etc. With this letter he forwarded the register books and an account of all the patients received and discharged from](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24873792_0280.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
