consulting-house

Updated: August 29, 2026

The house served a useful purpose at a time when physicians were not in the habit of increasing their knowledge by visiting the wards of the hospitals. Batson's was a consulting-house instead, not alone for patients but for the doctors themselves. In this respect, then, it differed from the generally commercial character of the coffee-houses under the shadow of the Exchange.

Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley - Inns and Taverns of Old London