Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh.

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Brief memoir of the late Thomas Bateman, Esq. M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the public dispensary, and to the Fever Institution, London, and formerly President of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MEMOIR, &c. nPHE late Dr Bateman settled in London soon after his graduation at Edinburgh in the year 1801 ; and his professional merits being very considerable, he was speedily elected Physician to two public institu- tions,—a large Dispensary, and the House of Recovery from Fever. He continued to distinguish himself, as he had done in Edinburgh, by his zeal and industry in the pursuit of science and literature: though he con- trived to mix with his severer studies a large portion of the dissipations of gay society, and carried with him in- to both these opposite pursuits, an energy of mind and of feeling which rendered him more than ordinarily sus- ceptable of the enjoyments which either of them can afford. He always retained a high “ sense of honour, as it is called, and was strictly careful to avoid, in all his conduct, every thing that the world esteems discre- ditable. He lived, however, to see and to feel, what at that time he had no conception of, how meagre a sys- tem of morality is that which the world is satisfied with, compared with the comprehensive morality of the Gospel—that Christian holiness without which 66 no man shall see the Lord.” His habits of life thus con- curring with the natural corruption of the human heart, and estranging him more and more from God, he soon became confirmed in his leaning to the wretched doc-