Observations, anatomical and physiological, wherein Dr. Hunter's claim to some discoveries is examined / [Alexander Monro].
- Alexander Monro
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations, anatomical and physiological, wherein Dr. Hunter's claim to some discoveries is examined / [Alexander Monro]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![L 2 ] word ; whilft ignorance of many of the moil material fads made it impoflible for my friends, during my ab- fence, to point out fully and clearly, the fpecious and partial colouring of the former, or mifreprefentation of the latter. For, as they (a) propofed chiefly to prevent the firft, and therefore generally the moil lading prejudices, which fuch reflections, if acquiefced in, might occafion *. they imagined, that, had they wrote to me tor information, this defign would have been fruitrated by the long delay j and they therefore printed, without my knowledge, what occurred to them with regard to this affair. This laft fad I intended only to have hinted, as an apology for the prefentpublication*, but Dr. Hunter, very unexpededly indeed, puts me under the neceflity of proving its truth. For altho’, by his filence, he feems to allow, that the firft of the two papers pu- blifhed in my defence, is, as it has been called, a A “ State of fads related by a friend (b) ;55 yet he con¬ fidently alleges, that I have had part in the fecond, notwithftanding that my Brother names himfelf the Author of it (c). Dr. Hunter’s own words, which he makes confpicuous, by giving them the title of a Poftfcrip!, will belt fhow his reafon for this fufpicion. ct P.S. (d) Dr. Alexander Monro junior, who u was abroad, has been lately in town, and we are u therefore bound to believe, he has approved of the fleps which his Brother has taken in his,defence.9> The plain narration of a few fads, will evidently prove how intirely groundlefs this infinuation is; and, I am afhamed to fay, will make it highly probable, that the Dodor’s confcience muft have rejeded what his pen here affirmed. I arrived not at London from Holland till December io. late in the evening. But my Brother’s letter is dated December 7. and was delivered that very day («) See Art. 8. of Crit. Re-view for November 1757* [b) See ditto. This Paper was wrote by ray Father. (c) Art. 8. for December 1757. [d) Art. 9. for ditto.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546540_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
