The answer of Richard Guy ... to certain invidious falshoods and reflections upon his method of curing cancers without cutting / lately published in an introduction to the Essays, etc. of Thomas Gataker.

  • Guy, Richard (Surgeon)
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1764
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Credit: The answer of Richard Guy ... to certain invidious falshoods and reflections upon his method of curing cancers without cutting / lately published in an introduction to the Essays, etc. of Thomas Gataker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f-have been fo little made known y where Candour * and Fidelity to the Public jujlly demanded c otherwife, &c/ I would give you to] un- derftand, that both you and the Public might have been fatisfy’d in that Point, on Enquiry either of the Perfons themfelves, or their Friends ; as for that Purpofe, alone, their Names and Places of Abode were inferred. But befide this, to prove, that I had an Intention of Publishing an Account of the prefent State of thofe Cafes, I will appeal to Dodtor Mounfey, at Lord G-’s, whether or no, I did not Shew him fuch an Account, which I had collected fome Months before, and propofed Publifhing it, with fome other Obfervations, as foon as my Time would permit. And to Shew that it is to my Difadvantage, not to do it, I can make it appear, that there hath not been, among the deceafed of my Patients, fo great a Lofs, as in an equal Number of Per¬ fons, in fuppofed healthy States, fet forth in Dr. Frackenridges Calculations on Human Life 5 thererefore confidering-that fome of my r Patients were under V ariety of other Ailments, it will appear as the g reared Proof of my Succefs, I have now, Sir, anfwered, in every Part, your malevolent Suggedioi^Q Falfhoods, fo far as is neceffary, to any important Purpofe: and at the fame Time, have corrected fome very material Errors, in your Judgment, as a Surgeon; I fhail now
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