John C. Lettsome

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John Coakley Lettsom FRS was a British physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands in a Quaker settlement. The son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother, he grew up to be an abolitionist.

Quotes by John C. Lettsome

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

John C. Lettsome

Approval

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When people's ill, they come to I, I Physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they die. What's that to…

John C. Lettsome

Bleeds

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