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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    [ -251 ] - If, after Dr. J. Willis converfed with Dr. Warren upon the Subjeift of the Medicines for His Majefty, Dr. J. Willis had defired Dr. Warren, when he was writing the Pre- fcription, to put the Initials of Dr. J. Willis to fuch Prefcription, or to permit him, Dr. J* Willis, to do fo, Dr. Warren, knowing that Dr. J. Willis had been educated at Ox- foid, and had taken a Dodtor’s Degree at Edinburgh, and had pradtifed Phyfic for Thirteen or Fourteen Years fince he took that Degree, would have made the fame Objeftion to adding fuch Initials or permitting them to be added to the Prefcription, as he would have done if the Surgeons and Apothecaries, all or any of them, had made the fame Requeft with refpeft to their own Initials? The Queftion muft have been, whether Dr. John Willis was authorized to a& there as a Phyfician. Confidenng the Circumftances of Dr. John Willis’s Attendance upon His Majefty, and that he is a Phyfician who has been educated and has taken a Degree, in the Manner men* tioned in the laft Queftion-if Dr. John Will is had made fuch a Requeft with refpedt his Tnit?als, Ihould Dr. Warren have thought it an impertinent Requeft ? Cer-