Letters of Doctor Lucas and Doctor Oliver. Occasioned by a physical confederacy discovered in Bath / [Charles Lucas].

  • Charles Lucas
Date:
1757
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Credit: Letters of Doctor Lucas and Doctor Oliver. Occasioned by a physical confederacy discovered in Bath / [Charles Lucas]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >1° ] the by-ftanders, that they may determine who has , the integrity to break through trifling defpicable forms and ceremonies, to come at the one thing needful, the patient’s good; and who has the ca¬ pacity to ferve the public andfupport the honor of the profeffion, which are mutual and infeparable; or, if both fhould be wrong, to look out for a better! Phis, I /hall infill: on ; becaufe I would not trull my reputation with any member of fo infamous a Confederacy, if fitch there can be. the whole. Sir, I am come to pals lorne days here ; and, though the utmoll adverfity that tyranny could bring upon me, has never been able to make me mercenary; I /hall not decline any other pradtice that offers, more than that to which I am called here. You can have no better ri»ht t<j oppofe my practicing here, than I lhould to oppofe your coming to pradlice where I refide. I v/ilh and endeavor to be upon good terms with all man¬ kind, but moll or all with gentlemen of the profef- iion. And, Sir, with exultation I tell it, I am honored with fome lhare of the regards of the firll men of the proielfion in London, as well as in Other parts of Europe. If it be agreeable to you, we lhould draw together for the common good,’ and our mutual honor ; you will take the trouble of fatisfying me, under your hand, that there has been no fuch affociation, no declaration to this ef- fedt, public or private ; or, that if fuch have beep rafhly made, they are declared diflolved and an¬ nulled. When this is done, my bolbm {hall be ready to receive every candid man. We fhali then be able to confer together, like friends and brethren, and fully difcharge the duties of our office, to the public, and in a brotherly communion to each
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