A vindication of the forceps described and recommended by Dr. Leake : in which the injudicious and illiberal remarks on that subject, signed Thomas Denman, are examined and refuted / by a late pupil of Dr. Leake's.

Date:
1783
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Credit: A vindication of the forceps described and recommended by Dr. Leake : in which the injudicious and illiberal remarks on that subject, signed Thomas Denman, are examined and refuted / by a late pupil of Dr. Leake's. 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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    i C 5 ] convenient pretence, however, when a man is either .alhamed or a- fraid to avow his real motives, and in the prefent cafe, it would not perhaps be difficult to affign others. But as this may be a matter of conjecture only, I fhall not infill upon it, as I would not wiffi to attack even an ungenerous Adverfary, by the fly method of Infinuation. Allowing you, therefore, the full merit of your pretended zeal for the public fafety ; let me alk you, why you did not found the alarm fooner, when you fay and would have it believed, there was fb much impending danger, and fuch dreadful conferences to be appre- hended from the ufe of this inllrument ? Let me Hill further alk you, why at length, thefe benevolent remarks of yours were not exhibited to the world in a public and open manner, inllead, as I am informed, of being privately handed about, among fuch young and unexperienced Gentlemen of the Profelfion as were not compe- tent Judges of the fubjeCt ? Did you mean that the poifon conveyed in this artful and inlidious manner, Ihould have time to operate and produce its effects before an antidote could be adminiltered ? As every man has an undoubted right to approve or difapprove of whatever is prefented to public view, I by no means blame you for making Dr. Leake's Forceps x fubjeCt of enquiry, provided you had done it in the way of a candid examination, founded on the evidence of his own Defcription: a mode of trial to which no Au- thor can reafonably objeCt, and to which every one has an undeni- able claim. But how far you have done juflice to that Gentleman in your Quotations, or the conclulions you draw from them, will be left to the following Strictures, and the Reader’s judgment without farther anticipation. You will pleafe toobferve, Sir, that contrary to your method, I fhall quote and examine thofe your remarks fairly, without pervert- ing your meaning, where that is to be found, or omitting one part and inferting another, as belt fuits my purpofe. I mull likewife B 2 inform