| Description Of Item | He encloses a letter from Dr Ellison and a draft for Ellison's membership of the College. He mentions Hunter's death and that he was particularly missed at a meeting of the Society of Physicians the previous night as he had been President after the death of Dr Fothergill. He reports that Hunter had bequeathed nothing to his brother John's children and that he had been interred in St James' Church near the grave of Sir John Pringle. He also reports that the College of Physicians have recinded a law that prevented physicians from being examined unless they have spent two years at university. 'This regulation excluded a great number who will now present themselves for examination as there are upwards of sixty phyisicans in London who are not of the College'. He has received 'Occurs Posthumes [?] de M. Ponteau', but was not impressed; the Memoirs de la Societé de Médecins which had a good account of the Russian baths by Sanchez; De Haen's Pathology, 'some good thing'; and Van Swieten's posthumous works, 'very uninteresting'. In index but as a pencil annotation with the date August 1783. There is no other letter with that date other than CUL/1/3/107. |