Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, touching the present state of His Majesty's health / ordered to be printed by the Hon. House of Commons, 13 January, 1789.

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[1789]
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Credit: Report from the committee appointed to examine the physicians who have attended His Majesty during his illness, touching the present state of His Majesty's health / ordered to be printed by the Hon. House of Commons, 13 January, 1789. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5ir GEORGE BAKER then detired that his anfwer to thefirft of thofe queftions might ftand as follows. c8oth his Majefty and the Queen, and the Royal Fa nrefiding with their Majefties.” '•lUndthat his anfwer to the fecond queftion might ■*’ ftand as follows : ° Wot on the Royal Family.” syou know any inftanceof Dr. Warren, or any other tan, by improper interruption, diflurbing his Ma- i reft, or preventing his going to fleep ? ti^iiow no fuch inflance. •George Baker having faid, in anfwer to a queftion . him, That, duly attending to the feveral circum- n which he has mentioned in his examination this hf does m his confcience think, that the chance Maieflys recovery is as good as when he was laft led before this committc. and feveral queftions been addrefled to, and feveral anfwers given bv ince he fo declared his opinion, Does he conti- his confcience, to hold the fame opinion, due regard nad to the feveral circumftances referred to in fuch ■>ns and anfwers? • of the fame opinion that I was two hours ago. Withdrew. rC 43 ) Sir LUCAS PEPYS again called in, and examined. fETIfER you know any inftance of Dr. Warren, M-rny?C,an!- by lmProPcr interiuption dillurb- rWajcfty s reft, or preventing him from going to A Paper of which the following is a copy, was then ihewn to Sir Lucas Pepys: t. a _,i; • Kew House, December ic, 1788. « . r. '-—report having been induftrioufly circulat- «« !?’ l Dr' arren had gone into his Maiefty’s Bed- « rLam. , gone into his Majefty’s ised- “ ^ contrary to the defire of Dr. Willis, and the « hisgM Tc, he afd. thnfC’ a vio'ent manner disturbed u keLM J f y °“J °f h!S 1ltet>’ in r-on'equence of which he w that iLm°rt I,ha u,“ally difturbed—This is to certify, “ „ti|‘ f wh.0Je-°f ,C ab°Ve P°rt is «<* true, and is mtrely founded m malice* Thurfday morning. « F. WILLIS** 1 did you fee the King laft } . if from him this morning, * 'lat Prate did you leave his Maiefty ? ,11 lhan re WlS-laft night; ver7 far Prom |u cealm as I have feen him. there been within the laft three days, great f.gns land irritation ? J b b ‘-onfiderable, his Majefty been with refpeft to fleep, within :h„;:rvf the paees> wh°have fat up f°r the 1X E? h“ «■ 1“d This paper was written by me, and figned by Dr. Willis, upon the 25th of December laft. 1 * ,,nU hatrha/-e hadDr-Warren in procuring the Drawing up or perfuading the (ignature of this paper ? S Having heard frequently of the report mentioned in this whim fr“d C°nCeivinS « to be very injurious to his charafter, wuhout any communication with Dr. Warren on the fub! n the W*rren and Dr. Willis were talking to a 'a1 han' iy Wr0t.e lhis PaPer» wilhing thereby to put an end to all altercation. I (hewed it Dr. Warren, who immediately prefented it to Dr. Willis; and I told Dr! nam 15,1 COnCe,v^d■ h* could no objefti.n to f.gn his name m contrad.flion to fuch a malicious report : this he really did, and Dr. Warren thanked him for having f® done.-Nothmg more palfed on the fubjeft. & Did Dr. VV lllis, at the time, make a diftinftion between preventing fleep, and waking from Deep; refufmg to give any certificate with regard to the preventing, but con! fentmgto this certificate with regard to the waking . or any dilhndhons to that effeft ? “ No fuch diftinftion was made to me, nor were there 7fT70ru/i'° the bcft of my «collea,on, palfed on Ibw«bjCV WhaC ‘hey m‘ght fay» 1 do not know> for i was writing. ’ * for^r!*d defire Dr. \Villis to give a certificate to the former effeft, which h« refufed ? NWal Uere,K-,fted him any raore S“'ftions on the fubiefh . as not this certificate to meet the Darriml.r ,-k ' whurh you had heard were circulated againlt Dr. Warren'? J*? lnforl“ the Comiittee, whether the report lln iha^W ?’/°,hebeft °fyour ifo™> turbed bis Majefly ^uTof hV fleep or^th^heh'd ^ vented him from going to lleep >? h had pr< I wilhed, by the certificate, to meet the report of Dr Varrens having difturbed hi* Majefty while fl.epine* which was the report that was circulated Withdrew! 5 Afarliff