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Excerpt from A Discourse Upon the Duties of a Physician, With Some Sentiments, on the Usefulness and Necessity of a Public Hospital: Delivered Before the President and Governors of King's College, at the Commencement, Held on the 16th of May, 1769; As Advice to Those Gentlemen Who Then Received the First Medical Degrees Conferred by That University
It likewife has repeatedly been mentioned by the different Profefi'ors of Medicine, (particu larly Doctors Middleton, and Jones, ) in their public Lectures, and earnefily recommended to the Confideration of the Inhabitants; the unhappy Difputes however, in which we have lately been engaged with our Mother Coun try, have hitherto rendered their Endeavours fruitlcfs; but, they neverthelefs (convinced of the great Nece?ity there was for fuch an In fiitution, and the very great Advantages which all Orders of People muft derive from it) tell-lit folved to perfif't in their Endeavours, until fome happy Occafion {hould ofi'er of pufhing it with fome Probability of Succefs. Such an Occa fion now prefents itfelf, and the Warmth and Zeal, which his Excellency the Governor, and molt of his honorable Council, have exprefl'ed for it, and the Liberality, with which they have fubfcribed towards it, induce them to think the prefent, the fitteft Time, for recom mending it, to the ferious Confideration of the Public.
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