Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S. : physician to the Public Dispensary, and to the Fever Institution in London.

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D., F.L.S. : physician to the Public Dispensary, and to the Fever Institution in London. 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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    And, before proceeding to the subject of this memorial, it may not be unreasonable to remark, that in the day-school (as it is in the course of his history to speak of it), although of late years less thought of than it possibly once was, there is a morfl advantage, for the loss of which few other situations can insure an equivalent. The affections, the precious affections, between pa- I’ent and child, and between brother and sister, are not interrupted. The alternation of home and school is agreeable, of itself, to the active spirits of early life: and the intervals of study are spent under a superintendence, compared with which the public play-ground is indeed sometimes a fearful thing. Affection and prin- ciple are “ pearls of great price.” They may be preserved, it cannot be doubted that they often are preserved, abroad. But as the hours spent out of school ai'e necessai'ily to be given chieffy to relaxation, and as this is hardly compatible with a very strict inspection by the same eye which exercises authority within, the vice,s so often la- mented would seem to be so incidental to such a freedom of manners as to be guarded against