An author's conduct to the public : stated in the behaviour of Dr. William Cullen, His Majesty's Physician at Edinburgh.

  • John Murray
Date:
1784
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An author's conduct to the public : stated in the behaviour of Dr. William Cullen, His Majesty's Physician at Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    [ » ] into wafte paper) proceeds from any fault of mine ? Or from the facts ftated, can you alledge, ferioufly, that you was more difpofed to deal with me than any other man in the trade ? The purchafers of your three former volumes are conftantly applying to me for the fourth; and an univerfal clamour is excited among them, when it is underftood that they will not be permitted to buy that volume alone; but if they want Dr. Cul- len's Firji Lines, muft purchafe the whole work anew. On this occafion they ufe expreffions (mixed with menaces againft me, who furely am innocent) on the con- duct of the Author, which I will not re- peat, whatever my own fentiments on the occafion may be. But if they are exafpe- rated at being excluded from completing one fet, the lofs mull: affect me much more, who have upon hand nearly one hundred volumes, for which I have paid ready mo- ney, that went into your pocket; and every milling of which I am, according to your generous decifion, now to lofe. Of
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