Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell].

  • Gregory James, 1753-1821.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 4* ] partial difiindions, fpares no trade, nor profeffion, nor ftate, nor ftage of life ! All fciences, arts, and learning, he equally knows and defpifes; and this torrent of abufe is rolled forth with a precipitancy of utterance, which excludes all refledion, and a turbulence of language which defies all criticifm ! What kind of; writing mull that be, which deprives its author of the mod natural of all claims to indulgence,—the defire of doing good ? We are fearful, left while we feel and refent his con- dud;, we ffiould feem rude to you, and regardlefs of that profeffion, which we ate fworn to honour and defend. To you, gentlemen, as a public body, we owe all poffibie refped ; as reprefentatives of the humane and charitable, and adminiftrators of the firft hofpital in this city, we profefs reverence and duty to you. We have been educated to furgery under your own eye; in your own fchool, have we learnt our operations, and re- ceived thofe important parts of education, of which we have a grateful remembrance : there, too, we have been early imprelTed with fentiments fuited to ourftation,and by modeft diligence and labour we hope fo to fulfil our duties now and always, as to fetourfelves above the reproaches of this Memorialift. We are naturally attached to that branch of cur profeffion, which fuits with the natural in- trepidity of youth. We endeavour to cheriffi in our minds an affedionate regard for our fellow-creatures; we hope we carry with us fentiments not unworthy of our profeffion into every houfe of mourning, “ for we are ac- cuftomed to fee people, once the gay and the happy, funk in deep retired diltrefs, fometimes ftruggling with