Dr. Blundell's second letter on his retirement from the Medical School of Guy's Hospital : addressed to his medical friends.

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Dr. Blundell's second letter on his retirement from the Medical School of Guy's Hospital : addressed to his medical friends. 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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    trary, it is remarkable that this very session I expressly engaged an able friend, Mr. Doubleday, solely to undertake this important duty, which he did with vigour and effect: and further, about this very time, the author of the letter alluded to was disqualified for so confidential an office, being en- gaged in giving assistance to the rival class in Webb-street. Secondly.—It is not true, as is insinuated, that Dr. Blundell requested of the Hospital that the writer of the letter might be appointed his obste- tric assistant, or, indeed, that Dr. B. sought an his neighbourhood ; these cases of difficulty were necessarily rare, for the field of the institution lay principally on the other side of the river, and was divided among five other gentlemen, who kindly and zealously volunteered similar assistance. I presume the claim is not raised on so frivolous a ground as this. A cli- nical instructor is not a gentleman who goes merely to some half dozen cases in the course of a session, where there is a class consisting of a hundred and twenty, thirty, or more pupils. What may have been done unknown to me I cannot pretend to say, but further help I do not acknowledge. The printed paper of the institution is now lying before me, and contains, along with that of the writer of the letter, the names of Messrs. Clarke, Croft, Doubleday, Fowler, and Taylor, as consulting-surgeon accoucheurs, to every one of whom singly I am under equal obligation, nor ought I to forget Mr. Ward.