A letter to Andrew Duncan sen, ... regarding the establishment of a new infirmary / by Richard Poole.

Date:
1825
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Credit: A letter to Andrew Duncan sen, ... regarding the establishment of a new infirmary / by Richard Poole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ets of the medical officers of this new rival Infir- mary, which would otherwise have been faithfully appropriated by the Managers of the Royal Infir- mary in the relief of human misery.” (10.) On the spirit of these remarks, I shall offer no comment. It is too palpable to require any. In the application of them, though a medical prac- titioner, and, as is abundantly well known, one of “ the prime movers of this New Infirmary,” I am, I may unhesitatingly conclude, not at all con- cerned. Indeed, from circumstances which I need not explain, but of which many individuals must be aware, I hold it to be morally impossible, that you should have had me in view, when meditat- ing such pointed animadversions. Candidly, there- fore, I really do not feel the slightest reason for « exercising a forgiving temper towards you ; and my sentiments are those of unmixed satisfaction, the unavoidable product and effect of your friend- ly regard and good offices, both before and since you uttered them. I am able, therefore, to di- rect my attention, in the most salutary manner, to the abstract truth and essential principle of your remarks ; and what I have now to say in re- ply to them, may be dispatched in few words. In the first place, then, without disparaging the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, who are, no doubt, beyond the reach of my opinions, whatever they may be, I am very confident, that as many sound men and true, as their number amounts'to,