Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, magistrates, and town-council of Edinburgh, regarding the Institutions of Medicine / by Peter Reid.

Date:
1821
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Credit: Letter addressed to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, magistrates, and town-council of Edinburgh, regarding the Institutions of Medicine / by Peter Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ^ • many t)l them of tiie other tlistiiiguished Uni- versities of Europe. My Pupils are now scat- tered through the world, and if I thought it either fair or becoming to collect their evidence on this occasion, I believe I should be suffi- ciently flattered by the result. What I here contend for is, that I have had opportunities, which fall to the lot of few, of sifting the prin- ciples of medicine, of appreciating the results of medical education, and of the use and abuse of the understanding in its various depart- ments : whether I have improved these oppor- tunities or not, must be left for others to de- termine. It only remains for me to say, if there should be any gentleman amongst you disposed to lis- ten to my claims, I trust that, in the discharge of his public duties, he will not overlook the duty he owes to his own family. Let him not think that I say this in the raw simplicity of a recluse scholar, totally ignorant of men and things,—a stranger to corporation politics, the influence of patrons, good customers, kind cousins, and other honourable connexions. But really, as one good turn deserves another, and as I am sincerely grateful for seeing any thing like a glimpse of manly feeling, and straight forward dealing, and honest intention, I hope that no worthy man will throw away a vote on me, by which he might have turned a penny in the way of trade.
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