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
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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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    [ *4 ] What ftate of the patients did Dr. Adding¬ ton conftder as a cure ? When the patient was able to do every thing that a man in health does. What were the particular circumftances of the two patients before mentioned by Dr. Ad¬ dington, which occafioned their being deemed incurable ? One of thofe perfons had been for many years under the care of a very fkilful phyfician, in an houfe for the reception of patients under this difordet*. It was a cafe that was diffe¬ rent from all others with which I have been acquainted, both in the caufe, and in the cir¬ cumftances which preceded and attended it.— The other was a patient who, I believe, had been ill very many years ; fhe had been for fome time under the care of an eminent phyft- cian, who wifhed her to be put into a houie where fhe might be taken care of for life ; lire was atrabilious in the higheft degree, and died, from the effedls of that diforder, in about a week. Whether the majority of the patients unde** your care were men, or women ? I think nearly equal. Whether
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