A brief exposition of those benevolent institutions, often denominated self-supporting dispensaries : with a view to recommend them to the patronage and support of the public, as tending to raise the moral character and improve the condition of the laboring classes / by John J. Bigsby.

  • Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881.
Date:
1832
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Credit: A brief exposition of those benevolent institutions, often denominated self-supporting dispensaries : with a view to recommend them to the patronage and support of the public, as tending to raise the moral character and improve the condition of the laboring classes / by John J. Bigsby. 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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    the kindness to send me his interesting- publi- cation on this subject, I feared that it was an Utopian scheme to produce impracticable happiness. On application recently to Dr. Storer for further aid, he was pleased to furnish me with much oral information, several brief, but valuable manuscripts of his own, some annual reports of these Dispensaries, and three excel- lent addresses to the persons intended to be benefitted, by Dr. Calvert, of London, and Dr. Arnold, the present distinguished Master of Rugby School. I now found this form of Dispensary to be spreading satisfactorily from the point of its commencement, and that it enjoys the favour of the labouring population, together with the zealous and disinterested patronage of the upper classes wherever it is practically known. In London there is a society of noblemen and gentlemen, (chiefly from Warwickshire and Northamptonshire) for promoting the objects of self-supporting Dispensaries.