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Additional memorial to the managers of the Royal Infirmary
Additional memorial to the managers of the Royal Infirmary Author:James Gregory Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: me, I engage to mow him complete authority for all that I have faid of them, and to refer him to the original authors, in whom he will find the whole detail of t... more »hat nonfenfe which I have mentioned but briefly, and in general terms. My account of it appears ludicrous, and to fome people incredible, only becaufe I have brought fo many choice fpecimens together, and arranged them on a new plan, and in fuch a manner that they all tend flrongly to illuftrate one another, and to eftablifh that general principle according to which they are arranged. This purpofe they anfwer fo well, that they almoft appear to have been contrived exprefsly for it. Mr Arrot is well qualified to vouch for the reality of that con- fultation, by much the moft formidable that ever I witnefTed ; for he was prefent at it, and, what is curious, he was on my fide, and the only perfon that was fo. Both thefe circumftances I had either forgotten, or, more probably, had never known. The truth is, I came in upon them in mediis rebus, that is, when they were in the middle of their confultation, and my poor patient in the middle of them. Mr Arrot, however, cannot be miftaken as to his having been of the confultation, and having differed in opinion from all his brethren, and from Dr Monro, and having agreed with me— which is very flattering to me. I can vouch for the facts, that Dr Monro was there, and that he was againft me, to my very great mortification ; for, though I do not profefs never to differ in opinion from Dr Monro, yet I am always forry when it happens ; and I have the vanity to think that it happens very feldom. But, till I read Mr Arrot's paper, I never knew, nor fufpected, that Dr Monro's opinion had fuch weight or authority with the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons, as to make them implicitly ...« less