The plan adopted by the governors of the Middlesex-Hospital for the relief of persons afflicted with cancer.

  • Howard, John, -1808.
Date:
1792
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Credit: The plan adopted by the governors of the Middlesex-Hospital for the relief of persons afflicted with cancer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    pofleflion of. It is a very important' fub- jedt of inquiry, equally interefting to the rich and independent part of mankind as to the poor; and, if fuch an inftitution be fairly fet on foot, it cannot fail of produ- cing beneficial confequences to all def- criptions of perfons labouring under this dreadful malady. Having now, gentlemen, fubmitted> to your confideration, ideas, which have arifen in the way above-mentioned, I leave their completion with you, to be amended by fuch farther additions as may arife from the adtion of minds embarked in the fame caufe, that of ufeful fcience. I will only add, (and I repeat their names with reverence,) that a better in- ftrudtor, in all philofophy, is not to be found than Lord Bacon s and that, af- ter the lapfe of more than a century, re- gard