Volume 1

Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, & medical science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    it requifite to admit, as the means of enabling perfons in dillant parts of thefe kingdoms; as well as foreigners, to form fimilar ones. This led me to reflect with fingular plea- fure upon tlie enlarged views and pliilan- thropy of the refpective founders, and ex- ' cited a wlfti to prefix to each of tlic Inftitu- tlons, a SilhouQtie, or engraved head, of the difiinguifhed characlers themfelves; more particularly as I had the honour of claiming a /hare in their friend (hips. After pleading the happineis I Ihould derive from their gra- tifying my with with their Silhouettes (for, although I do not poffefs the enthuflafm of a Lavater, I entertain a fondnefs for fuch re- prefentations), they had the condefeenfion to oblige me, and 1 will venture to add, the public alfo, by complying with my re- quelt; for, no benevolent individual can view this affemblage of philanthropy, without experiencing the moll; pleating refledtions^ and feeiino; the heart humanized with the tender energies of vl.ihing to go and do to likewife. Among