Statement of facts respecting Dr. Browne's conduct in visiting, without any authority, a patient of Dr. Holman's, in the Bath City Infirmary : with strictures on Dr. Browne's reply and Mr. Starke's observations in the 'Bath Journal'.

  • General Hospital or Infirmary (Bath, England)
Date:
1797
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Credit: Statement of facts respecting Dr. Browne's conduct in visiting, without any authority, a patient of Dr. Holman's, in the Bath City Infirmary : with strictures on Dr. Browne's reply and Mr. Starke's observations in the 'Bath Journal'. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his fubfcription, and the fervant was received into a large, airy, and feparate chamber in the Houfe, on Wednesday as above dated in the evening, not- withftanding the former attempt to introduce him under a different character. On the Tuefday following, June 27th, Mr. Starke came to the Infirmary to fee the patient, and fhortly after his return home wrote the following note to Mr. White the Apothecary: ££ Bath. Tuefday, “ Sir, a I am juft returned from feeing John, who, I am ex¬ tremely forry to fay, appears to me to be mod dangerouily ill. I have feen a great deal of the fmall-pox, have been much amidft it, and know pretty well the bed practice in it. If it can be done, confidently with the rules of the Infir¬ mary, I could wifh a large blider immediately applied to his neck, much Port wine given him, and two or three grains of James’s Powders every two or three hours. To me his life is above price, and I would mod willingly take the rifk of this practice upon fnyfelf. I know well that the abled phyfician in the world can know nothing of the fmall-pox but from experience. u I am, Sir, your moft obedient fervant, “ BURWELL STARKE. As this note interfered with the treatment of the cafe, Mr. White very properly fent it to Dr. Holman, upon which Dr. Holman wrote the fol¬ lowing note to Mr. Starke: »