Report from the Committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty [George III] during his illness, touching the state of His Majesty's health.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to Examine the Physicians.

Date:: 1788

Credit: Report from the Committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty [George III] during his illness, touching the state of His Majesty's health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$I can form no judgement or conjecture as to the probable duration of His Majefty’s diforder. What degree of experience has Sir George Baker had of the particular fpecies of diforder with which His Majefty is afflicted ? I was formerly a pupil of Dr. Batty’s, who attended an hofpital, where I had an oppor¬ tunity of feeing many inftances of this difor^ der.—I have likewife had private patients, from \ time to time, under that diforder; but when¬ ever the diforder has been of fome continuance, I have deiired the affiftance of phyficians who particularly attended perfons fo difordered. Whether Sir George Baker founds his opi¬ nion, in his anfwer to the fecond queftion, upon the particular fymptoms of His Majefty’s cafe, or upon his experience of the diforder in « general, or upon both ? Upon my experience of the diforder in ge¬ neral. Whether, in His Majefty’s diforder, Sir George Baker fees any prefent figns of con- yalefcence ? I do not fee any prefent figns of convalef- cence, % Whether$