The history and statutes of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

  • Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
Date:
1778
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Credit: The history and statutes of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the years 1743 and i 744, the Tick foldiers of the regiments quartered in or near Edinburgh, were taken into that part of the Infnmary which remained unpofleffed by other patients, as a more convenient hofpital than any other that could be found. In 1 745 and 1746, the affairs of the Infirmary, as well as of the whole country, were thrown into confufion by the rebellion, and ’the houfe became a general hofpital for the lick and wounded fol¬ diers, whom the managers affifted as far as was in their power; and feveral hundreds of them were attended and dreffed by the furgeons till cured : Since which time the fick foldiers from the army in Flanders, and from the different parts of Scotland, have been accommodated in the Infirmary. In 1746, the managers of the Infirmary and of the Town’s Work- houfe, took a joint leafe-of the Hall where the weekly affemblies at Edinburgh for dancing are kept, feveral ladies of quality and rank undertaking to aft as diredtreffes in their turns. The profits arifing from the affemblies, when divided equally to the Infirmary, Workhoufe, and private charity, affords about L. 100 annually to each. The Surgeon-apothecaries had not only attended without fee, but had alfo furnifhed the medicines gratis, each out of his own fhop, during his attendance, from the firlt eredtion of this hofpital in 1729, till 1748. The managers then thinking this expence too burdenfome, there being above forty patients conftantly in the houfe, and many out-patients receiving medicines, ordered an apo¬ thecary’s fhop to be fitted up in the houfe, and furnifhed with me- ^ dicines according to the Difpenfatory compofed by the College of Phyficians for the ufe of the Infirmary, which was thereupon printed