Chair of midwifery : Testimonials in favour of James Y. Simpson, M.D...

Date:
1839
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    Fifth Proof-Sheet of TESTIMONIALS IN FAVOUll OF DR J. Y. SIMPSON. From Dk Beatty, M. R. I. A., Master of the New Lying- in Hospital, Cumberland Street, Dublin; Consulting Ac- coucheur to the City of Dublin Hospital; Lecturer on Midwifery in the Park Street School of Medicine ; for- merly Professor of Medical Jurisprudence to the Royal College of Surg'eons, 8fc. Sfc. November 12, 1839, 16 Moleswovth Street, Dublin. My Dear Sin, I received your letter yesterday, and hasten to reply to it, with mingled feelings of pain and ])leasure. I must regret, in common with all who take an interest in our branch of the profession, that Da Ha- milton, who has so long and so ably filled the important office of Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edin- burgli, has been compelled by ill health to resign the Chair upon which he has shed such a brilliant lustre; and I must lament that Medical Science is thus deprived of one of its brightest ornaments. But while I condole with my parent University in the loss she has thus sustained, I cannot but feel pleasure in the thought that Edinburgh possesses an individual inevery way worthy to be the successor of that distinguished man;