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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    by fubfequent explanations, they have been careful to exhibit, as far as they have been able, a fair and confident account of every circumftance which has been agitated. After this datement, it mud be admitted, that Dr. Browne called at the Infirmary, and that he inquired refpe&ing the fymptoms of the patient’s cafe, and the medicines which were ufed to remove them; it mud alfo be apparent, that this could not be done without drong prefumption that Dr. Browne afted in a me¬ dical capacity. Allowing only thefe fa&s, which are acknowledged by Dr. Browne, and which the Committee have pledged themfelves to prove; the offence cannot be quedioned by any one who will attend, not only to the rules of this Infirmary, but of any inditution, whether medical or not. If a perfon places himfelf in any peculiar fituation ' in life, and acknowledges that he expe&s to derive advantage from it, we contend that it is that per- fon’s duty to fubmit to the rules which have been edablifhed for its welfare; or, on breaking through them, to forfeit the benefits which that fituation might otherwife bedow upon him. As inditutions for the cure of the fick are pecu¬ liarly under very dried rules, this obfervation in a particular manner applies to them. Were people admitted perpetually into the wards of an hofpital c without