Volume 13

The medical register for the year.

Date:: 1780

Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The medical register for the year. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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“ utility of a publication of this kind, conducted with at- “ tention and judgment, gives it a juft claim to a favour- “ able reception from the liberal and inquifitive part of the “ medical profeftion. To my approbation of your plan, “ in general, I am ready to add, that your fuccefs in the 44 prefent fpecimen, has, making due allowance, much ex- “ ceeded' my expectations from a firft attempt, a.nd feems 44 fufficient to juftify the confidence of the public in your “ capacity for conducting the future volumes of the work. 44 In the execution of a plan to various, fo comprchenfive, *' even with the advantage of being confiderably happy in 44 the general arrangement, fame degree of deficiency and in- 44 eorreftnefs may be expected to occur ; and from thefe, ac- “ cordingly, the prefent volume is not wholly free. A few 44 in fiances of the one, and of the other, as they occurred, v I fhall take the liberty to point out, in the order of your 46 general divifions. 4-41 have obierved that your method of arranging your lc materials: is well luited to give information. The leveral 44 articles preceding the county lifts, ate, without exception, 44 well ckofen, and the information prefixed to each, abun- 44 dandy fatisfaClory.” Another judicious correlpondent, a Phyfician in L—— fets out with the following exprelftons : ” 44 The Medical Regifter afforded me much entertainment; 44 and under the head of utility I may add, to what you 44 have faid, the aflxftance it will be of in detecting or pre- 44 venting perfons impofing themfejves on the public as Phy*- 44 ficians; and giving the future Medicalfiirtory or Biogra- , 44 phy

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