Testimonials in favour of Richard Poole, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh / [Richard Poole].

  • Poole, Richard, approximately 1780-1870.
Date:
1829]
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of Richard Poole, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh / [Richard Poole]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TESTIMONIALS, SC. We. ae Dr Poors, while a medical student in the University of Edin- burgh, commenced his career as an author by the Essay on Boscovicu’s System of Philosophy, published in the fourth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It relates chiefly to ‘the views of physical science entertained by that very illustrious man, but also touches incidentally on various points of a meta- physical nature, and enters somewhat fully into the principles of Inductive Logic, as supporting or invalidating the peculiar doctrines under consideration. This essay was honoured by the approbation of several very competent judges, more especially by the late Dr Grecory, well known to have taken delight in mathematical and metaphysical disquisitions ; the late Professor PLaYFaiR, a man equally eminent for talents and estimable in private life; Mr Ducatp Stewart, then holding with distin- guished repute the Professorship of Moral Philosophy in the same University; and the Reverend Mr Axison, the elegant and amiable author of an Essay on Taste, &c. From this last gentleman he received the following note: ‘¢ Dran Sis, ‘“¢] return you my best thanks for the very interesting memoir you have done me the honour to present to me; and. I cannot but very sincerely congratulate you, not only on the progress you have so early made in science, but still more on the just _ views you have acquired of the true principles of philogeptuceh investigation. ; “ With such acquisitions, and on such principles, you enter the career of science with every circumstance that can justify | B