Chair of midwifery : Testimonials in favour of James Y. Simpson, M.D...

Date:
1839
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    [Ninth Proof-Sheet.) PART III. OF FOREIGN TESTIMONIALS IN FAVOUR OF DR J. Y. SIMPSON. ,FROM DR J. GUISLAIN, Peesident of the Society of Medicine of Ghent ; Professor to the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Ghent; Physician-in-Chief to the Hopital des Alienes of that City, ^c. Sfc.; Author of Works Sur VAlien- ation Mentale, Sur les Phrenopathies, §-c. &fc. Ghent, December 1, 1839. I became acquainted with Dr James Y. Simpson at the time of his travelling in Belgium in 1835. I have read, since that period, different literary productions by him, which I have found translated into the Continental Journals, and it affords me sinceie pleasure to be able on this occasion to render homage to his talents. The Society of Medicine of Ghent, wishing to give him a proof of the just appreciation which they had formed of his works, conferred upon him the title of Corresponding- Member. In a tour that I lately made in England, I had often occasion to hear the name of Dr Simpson of Edinburgh coupled with eulogies. In London, they spoke of him .is