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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    had purpofed to provide fome place for him; and confe- quently as Dr. Brown had been confulted by me, from the recommendation of an old American friend in Yorkshire, he naturally would have been employed by me to attend John, fo that in truth Dr. Brown's condudt has been highly difinterefted. Mr. Bradfhaw alfo mentioned, and recom¬ mended to me the Infirmary the firft time he faw me, after it was known that the poor fellow had the fmall -pox: but Dr. Brown had known it firft, and firft recommended the fame place. When he was carried to the Infirmary, I was fo very ill that it was with difficulty that I could get to the Pump-Room, therefore had little expectation that I fhould be able to get to fee him; I therefore requefted Dr. Brown to have the goodnefs to call from time to time, and let me know how the poor fellow did. Dr. Brown was not re¬ quefted to attend him as a phyfician, nor did he ever prefcribe for him, or vifit him as fuch. I mentioned to you laft night that I had had much acquaintance with the fmall-pox. I have fome pretenfions to general knowledge, and can afiure Dr, Holman, from what I know of, and have obferved upon that diforder, if neceffity required that my whole family, whites and blacks, fhould be inoculated in Virginia, I fhould not hefitate a moment to undertake it without me¬ dical aid. It gives me much pain, that my condudl fhould in this affair have given rife to a nwfunderftanding between you and Dr. Brown. If there be any blame in it, it all be¬ longs to me, not to him: but I cannot help thinking that if Dr. Holman is not now perfedlly fatisfied, that the blame fs to be attributed to medical etiquette, which I have found in more inftances than one, is carried to a height in this country beyond any thing I could have conceived. John Ampy has for twelve years been one of the moft diligent and faithful fervants that ever waited upon a gentleman during my long and painful illnefs, his tender and diligent care could not be furpaffed: I therefore not only confider him