Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell].

  • Gregory James, 1753-1821.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Answer for the junior members of the Royal College of Surgeons, of Edinburgh, to the Memorial of Dr James Gregory / [John Bell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    T-he following requdl was prefented to Mr Bell, as the oldeit of the Junior Surgeons. Augufi 9. 1800. At a Meeting of the Junior Members of the Royal Col- lege of Surgeons, it was Refolved, That Mr John Bell be requefled to draw up an Anfwer to Dr Gre- gory's Memorial, to be prefented to the Managers of the Royal Infirmary at their firjl meeting, for the purpofe of doing away thofe grofs mifrepre- fentations of the character and con duel of the Tounger Surgeons, contain- ed in the faid Memorial. That the manner in which this Memorial Jhall be drawn up, Jloall be left entirely to Mr Bell's diferetion and good fenfe, fubjeEl only to their revifal before it be prefented. By appointment of the Meeting, Walter Hark ness. After the Royal College of Surgeons had decided on this intereft- ing Profeffional Quellion, Mr Bell thought proper to addrefs the following Letter to each of the Gentlemen who had done him the honour of appointing him to perform this duty. SIR, Ha KING now finifijed the tajk which you, along with fome other Gentlemen of the College, did me the honour to ajfign me, / have taken from my ferutore, the letter in which your general requefi is con- veyed, and 1 find that it was the defign of the Gentlemen ajfociated on