Volume 1

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom ... originally published in 1801; and now re-published with memoirs of the author; brief notices of many of his friends; and X new plates.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom ... originally published in 1801; and now re-published with memoirs of the author; brief notices of many of his friends; and X new plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i AM fcnfible that fome important infih tutions have not found a place in thefe volumes, as the Magdalen; Asylum; Foundling Hospital; the Marine So- ciety ; the iifcful feminary long fmee efta- blllhed by the natives of the Principality of Wales ; the Scottish Hospital, of royal incorporation, but fupported by private bounty; the more recent, but not lefs ufeful, inftitutioii of the Benevolent Sons of St. Patrick ; the fchools eftabliflied by the Free Masons, &c. &c. But this omiffion w6uld rather promote than preclude tlie profccution of thefe fubje^lsy on an enlarged plan, at a fu- ture period, dioidd public approbation en- courage it. I have, indeed, colledled mate- rials for a fourth volume, particularly in the department of Medical Science; but a reluc- tance to Increafe the expence of the reader induced me to withhold its publication, as I have