A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton].

  • James Hamilton
Date:
1837]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter to Dr. Edward Rigby [on complicated labour] / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guage from that in which you have been pleased to indulge. Perhaps I may be permitted, before enter- ’•7 -fjr ing upon this vindication, to ask, what possible motive you could assign for my “ unwarrant¬ ably impugning your father’s veracity, and endeavouring to detract from the merit of his well known and valuable Essay ?” For above forty years 1 have been accustomed in lecturing, to state, that his Essay had been most useful in directing the attention of British practitioners to a veryimportant subject. But I certainly from the first refused my assent, both to the origi¬ nality and to the soundness of some of his doc¬ trines, and this dissent was dictated by a sense of public duty, and by a solemn conviction that the facts and reasoning on which it was founded were incontrovertible. If I were disposed to evade this discussion, I could at once put an end to it, by shewing, in the first place, that if dissenting from the opinions of authors and practitioners on the
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