Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 13: July to December, 1903
By the kindness of the Managers I have read the early minute-books, and, although I can find no record of old play ing cards being used as a cheap form of hospital tickets, still there are many things which have interested me and may interest you. The Infirmary is the heart of our School, and the beginning of things always interested William Harvey; in either case the subject is not, I trust, inappropriate to the occasion. The Edinburgh Royal Infirmary attained its majority in 1749, and it is of the time before that date that I desire to speak. For many years a surgeon-apothecary had been appointed by the town to attend the sick poor, and the College of Physicians gave advice and medicine gratis in their hall in Fountain Close of? The High Street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
