The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty.

  • Ranby, John, 1703-1773.
Date:
MDCCLIV. [1754]
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Credit: The true account of all the transactions before the Right Honourable the Lords, and others the commissioners for the affairs of the Chelsea Hospital : as far as relates to the admission and dismission of Samuel Lee, surgeon : to which is prefixed, a short account of the nature of a rupture / by John Ranby and Caesar Hawkins, Serjeant-Surgeons to His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Full of falfe Fails;, Abufe, and Mifreprefentations of the Conduit and Behaviour of Mr Cbefelden, Mr Ranhy, and Mr Hawkins, with Regard to Mr Lee; and accufed the Right Honourable the Com- mifiioners, as having hardly and unjuftly difmif- fed him from the Hofpital, with Declarations dill, that the old Men were cured. Mr Ranby, to do all in his Power, in order to fix and clear this ma¬ terial Point, begged the Favour of feveral of the principal Surgeons of London, to affift at a Re¬ examination of ail thofe In-Penfioners who were declared to have been cured by Mr Lee \ and ac¬ cordingly on 13 'July* 1753, eleven of thefe Men were fo examined ; when every Man was found to have a Lrufs on, and the Ruptures of ten of them immediately appeared. With Regard to all the abufive Freedoms taken with their own private Characters, in the above- mentioned Pamphlet, Mr Ranby and Mr Hawkins long hefitated, whether they ought, or indeed whe¬ ther it was worth their while to take any public No¬ tice of them, or not. They were in Hopes their Characters and Behaviour, in the many Families which they have had the Honour and good Fortune to be employed in, would gradually wear away any Sufpicion that might have been raifed, that they could be mean enough to ufe Art and Authority to depre¬ ciate, cry dowrn, and qualh the new and valuable Difcoveries of any young Man in the Profeffion3 which it would have better become them to en¬ courage and fupport. They were confcious to themfelves of their be¬ ing above fuch low and difhoneft Artifices, and were inclinable to leave the whole to Time, which generally does Juflice to the Characters of Men, But fome of their Friends, and particularly of their own Profeffion, continued to prefs them for [ a 2 ] a public