Testimonials from James Sanders, M.D : member of the Royal College of Physicians, and lecturer on the practice of physic, as candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, in the University of Edinburgh, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, and the other members of the Town Council.

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[1821]
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Credit: Testimonials from James Sanders, M.D : member of the Royal College of Physicians, and lecturer on the practice of physic, as candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, in the University of Edinburgh, to the Right Honourable the Lord Provost, and the other members of the Town Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many gentlemen most ardent in their pursuit of truth; they at first thought I had committed some mistake ; but, using the precautions which I pointed out, and examining the effects themselves, they all pronounced, that my inferences were just. These gentlemen were to the number of 29 or 30; their names, with their then designations, are insert- ed in my work, pp. 192, and 193. Some of them are teachers, and many of them are now practi- tioners of high reputation in different quarters of the world. It will readily be allowed, that not a few of them were men of no ordinary talents; the late Dr Murray, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, lecturer on chemistry and materia me- dica, &c. Dr Gordon, and the late Mr Allan Burns, a distinguished teacher of anatomy, &c. in Glasgow, were of the party. Dr Murray, indeed, evinced, on this occasion, that candour and love of truth for which he was so much esteemed ; he had previously published on the same subject, in his much admired work on the Materia Medica; in the very next edition, how- ever, he altered his account of the fox-glove, and introduced, what I had found to be its operation, and properties. Having now satisfied myself, as to the facts, and having matured the different topics in the manner above described, I determined to submit to the world, two treatises, embracing the whole results of these various pursuits, one on Consumption of the Lungs, and the other on the medicinal properties of Digitalis. I commenced the composition of them in 1806, and they issued from the press in January