Defence of Dr. R.W. January against the attacks of Professor Eve, and others of the medical faculty.
- January, R. W.
- Date:
- 1854
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Defence of Dr. R.W. January against the attacks of Professor Eve, and others of the medical faculty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![his opinion. He remarked to father, that he could cut it out and heal it over in two weeks, but that he would not do it for his right hand. From this I suppose he thought it a cancer. Still the old Doctor says, my nephew knows the case in question not to be can- cerous. There is something rather amusing connected with Dr. Dudley's let- ter, particularly that part of it where he says, my nephew knows it not to be cancer. Now if we can only ascertain the object of the letter writers in bringing out the old Doctor en that subject. It will be -held in mind that I had never published a certificate of Dr. Dil'ard that I had cured him of Cancer. Rev. W. C. Buck, a particular friend of Dr. Dillard took it upon himsdif to go from Louisville to see Dr. Dillard, hearing that he was afiiicted with cancer, and if possible to bring him to Murfreesboi g to him that if he would come with him Le would insure a cure in three weeks. Dr. Dillard, having such confidence in the judgment as well as veracity of Mr. Buck, consented to come, but not without great opposi as I learned, from the Faculty at Lexington, Louisville and K viile, having a mini of his own, and having constantly by his side his brother Buck as conductor, had the good luck to stem the cur- rent of opposition, and arrived safe. As the good Lord would have it, io three weeks, precisely, I discharged him. A cure performed on the person of so conspicuous a ruaa as Dr. Dillard, an I . by the stupid Ass, is too much; and that is not all, he has had the impudence to give us a challenge, and at the same lime, has Uken the liberty to sp;3ak against the use of the knife in extirpating Can- cer; and we dare not get up a controversy on this subject for fear that Dr. Dudley and several other great men of our own school may be referred to, as giving their opinion- the use of the knife, and the braying of the Ass may wake up the people, and they may be induced to try some other method of getting relief. We will take a different plan to get rid of this noisy beast We write to Dr. Dudly and know of him by what authority reference was made to him. If we can onl] leming apology for it, we will publish this fellow to the woild as an imposter, we wid call him by sev- eral ugly names, we will publish him in our Medical Journal; b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21132999_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
