Quarterly report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital, from May to August 1829 / [James Syme].

  • Syme, James, 1799-1870
Date:
[1829]
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Credit: Quarterly report of the Edinburgh Surgical Hospital, from May to August 1829 / [James Syme]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUARTERLY REPORT OF THE EDINBURGH SURGICAL HOSPITAL, FROM MAY TO AUGUST 1829. By JAMES SYME, Esq. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, AND LECTURER ON SURGERY. (From the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal} No. 101 .J ■i In the early part of this year several circumstances, with which it is not necessary to trouble the reader, induced me to resolve on the institution of a Surgical Hospital in Edinburgh. I was not unaware of the difficulty of the undertaking, but trusted that I should be able to accomplish it through the as¬ sistance of the medical students and of the public. I believed that the former, from the confidence which they^were pleased to repose in me as a teacher of surgery, would support an hospital under my management from its commencement, and that the latter, from their benevolent feelings towards such establishments, would contribute to its maintenance so soon as they saw it fairly in operation and likely to succeed. En¬ couraged by these considerations, T calculated the expence of the undertaking, and ascertained, that, with accoffiih&dation and victuals for twenty patients, with suitable domestics, &c. it would not probably exceed L, 300 for outfit, and L. 700 for annual support. To defray these charges it appeared pro¬ bable that the following funds might be realized :—