A picture of the present state of the Royal College of Physicians of London : containing memoirs, biographical, critical, and literary, of all the resident members of that learned body, and of the heads of the medical boards, with some other distinguished professional characters : to which is subjoined an appendix; or, account of the different medical institutions of the metropolis, scientfic and charitable, with their present establishments.

  • Royal College of Physicians of London.
Date:
1817
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Credit: A picture of the present state of the Royal College of Physicians of London : containing memoirs, biographical, critical, and literary, of all the resident members of that learned body, and of the heads of the medical boards, with some other distinguished professional characters : to which is subjoined an appendix; or, account of the different medical institutions of the metropolis, scientfic and charitable, with their present establishments. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    io information, he ushered his pupils into life with the ad- vantage of certainty and preferment. The consequence of this was, that no one was better acquainted with the professional improvements going on in every quarter of the globe, than this gentleman. His good deeds of service and patronage formed ramifications of friendship and cor- respondence from the most distant regions, which returned their streams of intelligence, Us marks of gratitude, to their parent benefactor. His lectures, therefore, which were highly popular and well delivered, were furnished with every tiling new in respect to information on disease, and he had the earliest opportunities of giving a trial to every novel remedy, that either had been suggested, or put to a trial by others. Thus, he was the first who proposed to Dr. Percival, in a letter published by that eminent physician, the use of the carbonic acid in calculous complaints; and in the pharmaceutical treatment of mercury he introduced an important improvement, that of making a mercurial oint- ment with more certainty and less labour, by a new pre- paration of its oxyde, in adding lime-water to calomel, and with this oxyde forming the ointment—an ointment far more readily absorbed, and possessing more activity, than that commonly prepared by triture. Though thus immersed in an increasing routine of ex- tensive practice and varied engagements, such was the order of Dr. Saunders’s mind, and such his regard for the pursuits of literature, as not to overlook the character of the author as well as the physician. His first publication was, a Treatise on the Red Bark, in which he has stated the particular qualities of this spe- cies compared with the others, and in which he has offered a number of practical remarks on the use of the bark in general. This Treatise was well received; and, from the autho-