The blow, or, An inquiry into the causes of the late Mr. Clarke's death : supposed to have been killed at Brentford. Humbly inscribed to the public.

  • Dale Ingram
Date:
1769
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Credit: The blow, or, An inquiry into the causes of the late Mr. Clarke's death : supposed to have been killed at Brentford. Humbly inscribed to the public. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ableil ];\liyficians and men ‘of long expe^ rlence have been fometimes miftaken : befides wounds in the head are very fallacious, anddiave different appearances after death ; having fuffered and been al¬ tered by the .agonies of death itfelf. If we advert to matters in the law, even there we- fhall find that decrees^ of the ableff chancellors have often been juffly ' reverfed ; and in phyfical confultations, dodlors o^ different opinions are frequent¬ ly to be met wdth. If therefore this fur- geon’s opinion was too precipitate, or mif- taken, in either of thefe cafes he certainly deferves forgivenefs ; and his hafte is ^eatly bverbalanced by his humanity, in voluntarily applying to the fecretary of ffate on behalf of Quirk and Balfe, and declaring it was his opinion, that if Mr. Glarke had had care taken of him at ■ the