History of the Liverpool Medical Institution in special relation to the question of the lease / by Thomas H. Bickerton.

  • Thomas Herbert Bickerton
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: History of the Liverpool Medical Institution in special relation to the question of the lease / by Thomas H. Bickerton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    APPENDIX II. “Medical Library, Suffolk Street, Oct. 5th, 1835. “ At a meeting this day of the Building Committee appointed by the Subscribers to the Liverpool Medical Institution, to take the necessary measures for the erection of the building, of which an elevation and plans are hereunto annexed, it was resolved:— “ That copies of the Lithographed Plans, together with a List of the Subscribers and the amount of their respective sub- scriptions, be forwarded to each of the Subscribers; that similar copies be placed in each of the Public News Rooms; that the remainder be extensively distributed through the town ; and that the following Address to the wealthy inhabitants of Liverpool be prefixed to the List of Subscribers. “ The Building Committee, after all the inquiries which they have hitherto been able to make, being convinced that the amount of subscriptions announced will not be sufficient to defray the expense of erecting the said building, and that a considerable sum will further be required to complete its internal arrangements after it is erected, feel themselves obliged to apply to the liberality of the wealthy inhabitants of the town for their assistance on this occasion. And they venture to make this application with some degree of confidence, for the following reasons, viz.— “1. Because the proposed Institution cannot fail to be ultimately in a high degree beneficial to the town, by providing for the resident Practitioners abundant resources for their constant improvement in the knowledge of their profession. This is surely an object in which the inhabitants of Liverpool are deeply interested. “ 2. Because the medical gentlemen of Liverpool have rendered gratuitous assistance to the poor of the town, to an extent almost if not entirely unparalleled in any other town of equal magnitude in Great Britain. At the beginning of tire present year there had been recorded in the books of the Infirmary and Dispensaries alone, in a period of eighty-seven
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