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, and entirely recovered, after being considered incurable by some very eminent men) will perhaps come in well here. That gentleman had just returned to his home quite cured, when some one observed : “ Ah ! Mr. Long has only patched him up.”—“Never “ mind,” said his friend, “ they could not patch him “ here.” This piece of patch-work, however, has lasted two years; and bids fair to last many more. The editor of the Medico-Chirurgical Review is also an avowed enemy of Mr. Long ; in one article he speaks of him as a person partaking more of the “ monkey than the man.” The fact is, the editor judges of other people by himself: “ He is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for lie “ beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what “ manner of man he was.”—Gen. Epist. of James. Indeed, there have been no attacks upon Mr. Long which have appeared yet, that possess the least reason or justice about them. None of Mr. Long’s opponents, I will venture to affirm, will ever be hung for Thames’ arson, for a pamphlet came out some months ago, in which the whole wit seemed to consist in representing that “ A young lady went from Newington Butts,” To consult Mr. Long for a pain Delicacy forbids my completing the rhyme. I should never have mentioned editors, pamphlet- writers, or any other writers; but “ men have got a “ fashion now-a-days, that two or three busy bodies “ will take upon them the name of the world, and “ broach their own conceits as if they were a general ec opinion.”—Bacon.