Brief memoir of Dr. Thomas Bateman.

  • Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Date:
[1830?]
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Credit: Brief memoir of Dr. Thomas Bateman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. 234. BRIEF MEMOIR OF DR. THOMAS BATEMAN. N order to introduce to our readers the following* inte¬ resting; and useful Memoir, it is only necessary to state, or the sake of those of them who are unacquainted with .he name of Dr. Bateman, that he was a physician of con- dderable eminence in London, and well known as the mthor of several medical works which we believe are held 11 high estimation in the profession; besides which, he conducted the medical department of Dr. Rees’s Encyclo¬ pedia, and was joint editor of the Edinburgh Medical md Surgical Journal. His zeal and ability in superin¬ tending a Public Dispensary, and the House of Recovery DT Fever Hospital, in London, were highly beneficial to those institutions, and to the public. He expired April 9, p.821, at Whitby, in Yorkshire, in the prime of life, at the bge of 43 yeai's. The late Dr. Bateman settled in London soon after his j ^ on at ^Edinbur^^ h in the year 1801 ; and his pro essional merits being very considerable, he was speedily jelected Physician to two public institutions—.a large Dis- Jiensary and the House of Recovery for Fever. He con¬ tinued to distinguish himself, as he had done in Edinburgh, l)y his zeal and industry in the pursuit of science and lite¬ rature ; though he contrived to mix with his severer stu¬ dies a large portion of the dissipations of gay society, and carried with him, into both these opposite pursuits, an energy of mind and of feeling which rendered him more than ordinarily susceptible of the enjoyments which either pf them can afford. He always retained a high “ sense of lonour,” as it is called, and was strictly careful to avoid. THB RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, 56, PATBRNOST^R-ROW j INSTI’J’UTED 1799.