A letter from the committee to the governors of the General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street, on the resignation of the medical officers.

Date:
1833
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Credit: A letter from the committee to the governors of the General Dispensary, Aldersgate Street, on the resignation of the medical officers. 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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    TO THE GOVERNORS OF THE GENERAL DISPENSARY, $fijersgate street, FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK POOR, INSTITUTED 1770. “ When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.” Vide Dr. Roberts's Speech upon his Resignation. My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, How far the above quotation of Doctor Roberts can be applied, either to the Governors of the Institu- tion or its late Medical Officers, it is not for us, the undersigned members of the Committee, to decide ; it is sufficient to give the Doctor the benefit of it, as he is probably the best entitled to it, and confine our- selves to the task of answering the charges which have been made against the Committee by him and by his coadjutors, Drs. Birkbeck, Clutterbuck, andLAMBE, and burgeons Salmon and Coulson, and this we do' very reluctantly, having no ambition to figure before the public either as authors, or as the antagonists of those who are so much better entitled to that distinction and it is only to protect the Institution, (for the benefit ot those who are driven to seek relief from it,) and to repel the attacks which the Medical Officers have thought proper to make upon the Committee, and