Notes and recollections of a professional life / by William Fergusson ; edited by his son, James Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
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1846
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Credit: Notes and recollections of a professional life / by William Fergusson ; edited by his son, James Fergusson. 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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    NOTES AND IIBCOLLECTIONS OF A PROFESSIONAL LIFE. INTEODUCTOEY REMAEKS. In this strange desultory book, de omnibus rehus medicis cum tnultis aliis, it is my intention to write upon whatever subject I think the experience of my Hfe may have given me op])ortunity to ob- serve, or quahfied me to understand. I know well that in tliis last respect many have deceived themselves, and should I prove to be one of the seK-deluded, I must just pay the penalty in the printer's biH; but I have now arrived at that period of life Avhen its game has been nearly played out, and I feel that if I am to \vrite at all, I have little time to lose in setting about it. I shall, therefore, using another privilege of my age, venture upon the task without fear or favoui' to any authority, or school, or party; but taking what I believe to be the spirit of truth for my guide, fearlessly tell it in every part of my subject, always, how- ever, escliewing personal ofi'ence and needless injury to the feelings of the living, or memory of the dead. In this way, then, I stiU flatter myself I shall be able to produce a readable work, for my eai-ly life was a deeply varied one, and if I cannot describe what was so long its business and contemplation, it must be through want of abihty in the narrator, not tlu-ough defatdt of interest in the subject. Eut be tliis as it may, I served throughout the whole course of by far ihe most eventful war in wliich Britain B
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