Dr. Blundell's second letter on his retirement from the Medical School of Guy's Hospital : addressed to his medical friends.

  • Blundell, Dr., 1790-1878.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Dr. Blundell's second letter on his retirement from the Medical School of Guy's Hospital : addressed to his medical friends. 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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    Again, there seems further to be a tendency in the letter to represent the clinical assistance as greater than it really was. For, as shown above, instead of commencing in 1829-30 as stated, it did not exist at all till the session of 1831-2. Instead of clinical lectures having been given by the writer of the letter, during two or three sessions, they were delivered by him during the third session only, with the exception of a few delivered in the close of the second session, say in the end of April and the beginning of May. Instead of the out-door patients being seen in the Hospital with a primary view to my relief, they were in reality so seen by the direction of Mr. Harrison, who had the right to decide, and who had pronounced his u must the primary object throughout being not to relieve me, but, for whatever purpose, to introduce another gentleman. Instead of the Hospital Lying-in Charity and its management by the writer of that letter being to me a benefit, or creating claims upon me, in reality it was just the converse, for, as intimated in my former letter, I had an institution of my own, necessary to my independence as a