Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland.

Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of medical evidence and trial by jury in Scotland. 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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    By Ml’ Patton.—I had no personal feeling in regal’d to Mr Glover at all. I inserted the correspondence with the Lord Advocate and the Commissioners of Police in the Medical Journal. The article with which it is prefaced is of ray writing. I got an answer from the Commissioners of Police to the letter which I wrote them on the subject, and subsequently I had an explanation of their own laws. They sent me a communication containing a statement of their regulations, and afterwards I received an explanation of the intention which they had in these regulations. I saw the dressings of the boy’s limb on the morning of the 21st, before Mr Glover had been there, about twelve o’clock in the morning. I do not recollect any appearance of blood or stain on the dressings of the wound, nor do I think there could be any at that period—four days after the injury. No one could form any opinion as to the nature or extent of the injury from the appearances on that occasion; the state of the pulse showed that he was not in danger—I mean, so far as it went. By the Dean.—I conceive he was never in danger. It looked formidable at first; but, when carefully examined, it seemed to me to be free from danger. I never entertained an opinion that the case would terminate fatally. There is no injury which may not terminate fatally; but there was no reasonable probability of this one doing so. The letter in the Scotsman newspaper of the Ifitli J uly, is from me. I sent that letter to the newspaper in conse- quence of hL- Glover having published, or the Commissioners of Police having published for him, a contradiction of a statement made by me—stating that I had said what -was not true. I mean the letter from Mr Glover to the Lord Provost, published in the Scots- rrmn of the 13th ; and in that letter he says that I had been misin- formed, and that I had not stated the facts correctly. My letter was put in the newspaper in consequence of that. In the same column of the Scotsman there appears my communication to the Police Commissioners. It appears in the newspaper report of the proceedings of the police commission. I am aware that the pro- ceedings of that body are always published, but not in extenso. [Beads in the Scotsman of tlie 16th the second paragraph of a letter dated the 1st of July.] “Prom a letter, published to-day in the FAlinbimjh liConthh/ Medical Journal for July (tlie same that was inserted in the Scots- man of Wednesday la.st), it appears that Mr Glover has attem])ted