Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the public dispensary and to the fever institution in London / [James Rumsey].

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the public dispensary and to the fever institution in London / [James Rumsey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    St. Giles's ; and thither it was his business to follow them. The scenes he had thus to traverse were often as fearful as they were distressing; but he did his duty to his patients; and even in that extreme depth of depravity there were never wanting some to do theirs to him. For the wretched people knew the value of his visits, and fierce as they were, it was common for the first who caught sight of him, as he entered their appalling precincts, to step forward for the pur- pose of protecting and conducting the Doctor! to the sick room. * Happy the country, whose charities are so administered! — whose servants are thus faithful to their trust, howsoever difficult or revolting; and the most abject of whose inmates involuntarily so testify to the praise of both! * A. friend who was once walking through the streets with him, will not soon forget the expression which lighted up the countenance of a labourer, who, on suddenly meet- ing them, exclaimed, God bless you. Sir! God bless your Honour ! On Dr. Bateman being asked who the poor man was, he said he did not recollect, but did not doubt he had been a patient at the Fever House or the Dispensary, it being very common for such greetings to happen to him from his Irish patients there.