Report from the Committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness : touching the present state of His Majesty's health : containing examination of Dr. Warren, Sir Lucas Pepys, Dr. Willis, Sir George Baker, Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Gisborne : ordered to be printed 13th January 1789.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee Appointed to Examine the Physicians who have Attended His Majesty during His Illness
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1789
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Credit: Report from the Committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness : touching the present state of His Majesty's health : containing examination of Dr. Warren, Sir Lucas Pepys, Dr. Willis, Sir George Baker, Dr. Reynolds and Dr. Gisborne : ordered to be printed 13th January 1789. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ i5o ], Did he defire fo to do ? I underftood from the Chancellor that he did. Have the other Phyficians, or any of them, fubferibed the Initials of Dr. J. Willis’s Name to Prefcriptions for His Majefty ? I do not know—but I have been told thar forne of them have. Do you confider Dr. J. Willis more in the Charafter of a Phyfician, with refpeft to his Situation about the King, than the Four other Medical Gentlemen attending His Majefty, namely, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Keate, Mr. Dun- das, and Mr. Battifcombe ? More Refpeft is due and paid to him, be- caufe he has taken a Degree. But with refpeft to his Situation about the King, do you aft with him, or confider him more in the Light of a Phyfician than thofe Four Gentlemen ? No. Would not the fame Attention have been paid to any other Phyfician then prefent,- who had feen Flis Majefty, though not at all at- tending as a Phyfician to His Majefty ? Provided there was no Impertinence in his being there. If,