[Testimonials in favour of Mr. John Thomson, M.D., as candidate for the Chair of the Practice of Physic, in the University of Edinburgh].
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19/34 (page 52)
![meduMl surgery, I should be ungrateful if I (lid not acknowledge that I am indebted for my acquainlancc with that most extensive and most imporlaut department of medicine, to the instfuclions I received when attending his lec- (tiros. As these lectures have been my guide in prosecuting the study of the multifarious sub- jects contained in them, and as I cannot accuse myself of indolence in pursuing the plan which they pointed out, I feel myself justified in say- ing, that tliey contained a vast variety of useful infortr.ation, and a most luminous detail of an- cient aiifi ii^odern experience, whilst I recollect that the eiUhusiasm ^vhich Dr Thomson in- stillett into Im pupils by his mode of teaching, iiiade thcMi not only attentive listeners, but sti- mulated therm to the ardent study of the science into the principles of which they were initi- ated. When J say that Dr Thomson is the the most learned physician I ever met with,. I l^uow that J ain quite safe from any appear- ance of exaggeration, because I have heard the same language employed by many medical men in England, and by all those foreigners;^ wirli whom he became fvcquaiuted during' his professional tour on the Continent. It is not. oijiy in medicine, and its immediate branches,] that Dr Thomson has a most remarkable de-' gree of knowledfi^e ;—no one J am certain can have conversed with or consulted him upon the actual state or previous history of Chemistry, Botany, Mathematics, or General Philosophy, without being surprised at the extent and ac-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21482986_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
