A brief account of facts with regard to certain researches on the heart, in reply to statements in a memoir of Dr. Hope.

  • Charles James Blasius Williams
Date:
1842
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Credit: A brief account of facts with regard to certain researches on the heart, in reply to statements in a memoir of Dr. Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and on several occasions you consulted me as to the best mode of performing them, and requested me to assist you, which I did. I certainly considered all the experiments I witnessed as performed at your sugges- tion ; and that they were under your entire direction. Believe me to be yours very faithfully, W. H. Good. (From Mr. Henry Charles Johnson, Demonstrator of Anatomy, &c.) 6, Saville-row, Aug. 22, 1839. My dear Williams,—Many of the circumstances connected with the experiments made on asses, in 1835, have, I fear, escaped my memory. You, I re- member, asked my permission to use the dissecting- rooms in Kinnerton-street, and requested my assist- ance at the experiments you were about to perform. You explained also to me the nature of the inquiry, and desired me to peruse the appendix to which you have alluded. I certainly considered that the experi- ments were made under your direction,rnot:having had communication with any other person on the subject, and it was not until after their completion that I was made acquainted with Dr. Hope’s claim to partici- pation in their arrangement.—Believe me, dear Wil- liams, yours very faithfully, Henry Charles Johnson. (Statement of the Porter to the Anatomical] Theatre.) I recollect well that in February 1835, Mr. Tatum and Mr. Henry Charles Johnson ordered me to get the room ready for Dr. Williams, that he might perform some experiments. After these experiments were performed, Dr. Williams paid me for the animals, and I leceived no order or payment from any other person. (Signed.) Henry Hemson, Porter to the Anatomical Theatre, Aug. 17 th, 1839. Kinnerton-street. It is therefore plain, that I had the’entire arrano-e- mcnt and direction of the experiments ; but I did not refuse to avail myself of such suggestions of those who
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