Testimonials in favour of James Irving, a candidate for the office of physician to the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Edinburgh.

Date:
1846
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of James Irving, a candidate for the office of physician to the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    responsibility as superintending Physician; and I must leave it to the Managers who have visited the Asylum during that period, to say how I have conducted the business of the institution. In the event of my being appointed to the office, with the duties of which I have thus had such opportunities of be- coming familiar, I shall endeavour to merit your confidence by devoting my whole energies to the performance of those duties,—to do all in my power to ameliorate the condition of the unfortunate, but to me most interesting class of patients under my care; and, as much as in me lies, to advance the interests of an institution in which I cannot but feel great interest. I have the honour to be, My Lord and Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble Servant.