Observations on the plan proposed for establishing "a Dispensary and Medical Society for the private and only immediate use of the subscribers, the families, and friends." / [Anon].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815
Date:
1779
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Credit: Observations on the plan proposed for establishing "a Dispensary and Medical Society for the private and only immediate use of the subscribers, the families, and friends." / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * OBSERVATIONS, &c. PARTICULAR attachments are in few in* fiances more juft and beneficial, than when formed between patients and medical praflitioners: they are founded on the tried fkill and integrity of the one, and that complacential confidence of the other, which greatly contributes to tranquility and the reftoration of health : and fo effential has this interefting connexion been found to the fuccefsful praflice of Medicine, that there are few families who have not a felefl phyfician and apothecary. Thefe confiderations, which were fuggefted on the firft perufal of “A Plan of the Medical Society “ and Difpenfary, for the private and only imme- “ diate Ufe of the Subfcribers, their Families, and <c Friends,” appeared to me fufficient to obviate the prefumed advantages of this new inftitution. But