A defence of John St. John Long, Esq. M.R.S.L., M.R.A.S., H.M.R.J.S. in the case of the late Miss Catherine Cashin : founded upon the evidence against him / by a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge, and member of the Middle Temple.

  • Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.
Date:
1831
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Credit: A defence of John St. John Long, Esq. M.R.S.L., M.R.A.S., H.M.R.J.S. in the case of the late Miss Catherine Cashin : founded upon the evidence against him / by a graduate of Trinity College Cambridge, and member of the Middle Temple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tion to that effect. Yet still the absurdity of this ob- servation is apparent at the first glance ; for he there- fore owns, that according to the practice of the junior branches of the profession, he would make a wound upon a sick.person, which he would think likely to kill a person in full health ; ergo, a sick person is stronger than one in full health. There is a possibility of its being again advanced, that Dr. Thomson would have thought it unwarrantable to make so extensive a sore upon the back of any person, either sick or well. Granting this position, it resolves itself into a very simple argument, which is this, that by how much a person in disease was enabled to cope with the smaller sore, by so much the person in full health could with- stand the larger; and it is very certain that if Dr. Thomson was to proportion his counter-irritation to the strength of the patient in a desperate case (and from what appeared in his evidence it is pretty clear he would only try such a remedy in a desperate case) to that used by Mr. Long on the per- son of this young lady, who was represented to be in such sound health, why Dr. Thomson would produce a sore about the size of a sixpence, as it has been shown, and will be more fully so by and by, that the sore produced by Mr. Long was only the size of the palm of the hand, that is, a circle of about three inches or three inches and a half diameter. Dr. Thomson then proceeds : “ I have seen a per- “ son who died, having no more inflammation of the “ pleura and pericardium or of the stomach; that is, “ taking each separately, always excepting the ap- “ pearances of the back.” It will perhaps be well here to observe, that in a former part Dr. Thomson -