Statement of facts respecting Dr. Browne's conduct in visiting, without any authority, a patient of Dr. Holman's, in the Bath City Infirmary : with strictures on Dr. Browne's reply and Mr. Starke's observations in the 'Bath Journal'.
- General Hospital or Infirmary (Bath, England)
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statement of facts respecting Dr. Browne's conduct in visiting, without any authority, a patient of Dr. Holman's, in the Bath City Infirmary : with strictures on Dr. Browne's reply and Mr. Starke's observations in the 'Bath Journal'. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![S , * [ to ] #-c Dr. Holman having laid before the Committee of Managers of the Bath City Infirmary and Difpenfary, fum- moned by requeft of the Medical Gentlemen, two letters from Mr. Starke, refpedling his fervant, now a patient at the Infirmary; the Committee are forry to obferve, from their contents, that fome mifreprefentation muft have been made to Mr. Starke, refpe&ing the treatment of the cafe; they beg leave to allure him, that it is their opinion that every proper means have been ufed, and every humane attention fhewn to his fervant by Dr. Holman, a gentleman of regular education, and profeffional abilities; and likewife, that pro¬ per attention has been given to the patient by the Apothe^ cary, Matron, and Nurfes.-—-June 28th. u To Mr. Starke.” On Dr. Holman’s return home from the Com¬ mittee, he found the fubjoined note addreffed to him from Mr. Starlie: a Bath, Wednefday Morning. u Sir, £C As Dr. Holman appears not* to be fatisfied with the explanation of my note laft evening, I do not know that I can convince him that Dr. Brown did not dare to vifit Mr. Starke’s fervant, at the Infirmary, as a phyfician; a term by the bye pretty firong, for one gentleman to ufe to anor ther. The fa<SI is, it was owing to Dr. Brown entirely that he was fent to the Infirmary; he firfi: propofed it to me; he recommended it as a place where he would meet with pro¬ per treatment, and a good room: he got a ticket from Mrs. Deane for his admiffion, not knowing that for his admiflion it was necelfary that I fhould become a fubfcriber to the Infirmary. When I found the diforder to be the fmall- pox, and that I could not keep John in a lodging-houfe, I had](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30374996_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
