St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war : the Rede lecture, 1915 / Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1915
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Credit: St Bartholomew's Hospital in peace and war : the Rede lecture, 1915 / Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obliged to search into several rolls and records, that notwithstanding such an employ- ment was at first very dry and irksome to him, he at last took an incredible pleasure in it and preferred it even to the reading of Virgil or Cicero. When I began to write this lecture peace reigned in Europe ; before it was finished the flames of war had begun to redden the sky. At the time first appointed for its reading the death in the field of my son Gillachrist, an undergraduate of this University, prevented it. Topics of war, and hardly any others, interest us now, yet I have thought its subject not unsuitable to the time, since the history I have related tends to show how in a free country such as ours, where everything is not dominated by government, an ancient institu- tion hke St Bartholomew's Hospital, whether in peace or war, lives with the nation and is
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