Letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the state of that house / By a contributor.

Date:
1818
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Credit: Letter to the general court of contributors of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; containing observations on the minutes of evidence, and on the report of the committee appointed to enquire into the state of that house / By a contributor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dently expect that you will not only express, in the strongest manner, the sense which you must have of the value of their labours, but that you will also urge on the attention of the Managers the adoption of those measures of improvement which have suggested themselves to your Com¬ mittee in the course of their investigation. To those who take an interest in the concerns of the Royal Infirmary, it must be satisfactory to find, at the close of so minute an investigation, that nothing which can strictly merit the name of an abuse, has ever been suspected to exist in the management of that Institution; and that whatever negligences or defects may have crept into its administration, they are obviously of such a nature as can attach blame only to those, who, when they are pointed out, should endea¬ vour to palliate or defend them. It is, however, I confess, with some feelings of mortification that I have read the account which the Report contains (page 98,) of the actual state of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in the beginning of July 181? ;—of an hospital which we have been always taught to consider not only as an excel- « - * - t ' ■> lent school of instruction for medical students,