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.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- 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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![his education, he visited, besides Paris, most of the places of resort for the relief of invalids abroad; as Spa, in Westphalia, Aix la Chftpelle, and various others.—When he visited Paris, among other ho- nourable recommendations, he carried one from Dr. Benjamin Franklin to M. Jaques Barbeu Dubourg*. He was afterwards introduced to the celebrated Mac- quer, Le Hoi, and other characters conspicuous at that period, with whom he corres])onded till their decease. After this circuit he repaired to London, where he finally settled, with the undeviating friendship of his old guardian, and the patronage of his brother Dr. John Fothergill (whose Life he afterwards pub- lished as a tribute of gratitude and respect.) Under such patronage, with a mind richly stored with science, matured by reflection, improved by early and dear-bought experience, success was in- sured; and its fruits were displayed, not in a fas- ft tidious conduct and ostentatious parade, but in be- nevolent schemes for the relief of the distressed poor, and numerous charitable institutions to mitigate pain and repel disease. Many of these originated w'ith himself; and, of those that were planned by others, several received from him considerable improvement, and all his active support. In many instances he * He published the Life of his friend Dnbourg, in the first vo- lume of Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, See also Mr. Pettigrew’s Eulogy, p. 51. fostered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21525146_0001_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
