History of the Liverpool Medical Institution in special relation to the question of the lease / by Thomas H. Bickerton.
- Thomas Herbert Bickerton
- Date:
- [1907]
Licence: In copyright
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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![ry CD ! ■ 10 /C‘ »\ -»«- HISTORY OP THE ? LIVERPOOL MEDICAL INSTITUTION IN SPECIAL RELATION TO THE QUESTION OF THE LEASE.1 Bv THOMAS H. BICKERTON. [Read, at the request of the Council, at a meeting of the Medical Institution, March 3rd, 1904, and published in accordance with a resolution of that meeting.] The Liverpool Medical Library, which afterwards was amalga- mated with the present Liverpool Medical Institution, had its origin in the three Surgeons attached to the Liverpool Infirmary — Mr Henry Park, Mr John Lyon, and Mr Edward Allanson — deciding about 1770 to purchase new medical publications jointly, and to divide the books at the end of the year, “ so as to avoid the expense of each buying separately books which were not worth a second perusal.” But before any books had been bought the Physicians of the Infirmary proposed to enter into the plan, and suggested that the books should be deposited in the Infirmary, and form the nucleus of a Medical Library. A little later the Physicians and Surgeons of the Liverpool Dispensary joined in the scheme, the books becoming the property of the Medical Officers of the two Charities. The importance of such a reference library was soon felt, 1 The historical facts and information have been mostly obtained from the Minute Books and from the valuable papers by the late Drs Henry Park, John Rutter, and Robert Gee, in the Library of the Institution, while copies of the Leases have been kindly provided by the Town Clerk (E. R. Pickmere, Esq.).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22426152_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
