The letters of Mr. Alexander Fiddes, F.R.C.S., Edin. considered and refuted, his misrepresentations exposed, his calumnies and innuendoes set in the light of truth, his various statements in the press and otherwise weighed in the balance and found wanting / by Lewis Quier Bowerbank ; together with documentary letters and papers, tending to expose a professional conspiracy, and to afford the public in the colonies, and in Great Britain, correct judgment as to the controversy now existing on hospital matters.

  • Bowerbank, Lewis Q.
Date:
1865
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Credit: The letters of Mr. Alexander Fiddes, F.R.C.S., Edin. considered and refuted, his misrepresentations exposed, his calumnies and innuendoes set in the light of truth, his various statements in the press and otherwise weighed in the balance and found wanting / by Lewis Quier Bowerbank ; together with documentary letters and papers, tending to expose a professional conspiracy, and to afford the public in the colonies, and in Great Britain, correct judgment as to the controversy now existing on hospital matters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    TO THE EEADEE. The following pages are submitted to the j adgment and candid consideration of the Medical Profession, as well as of the public in general. The Author regrets deeply the necessity which has been laid upon him, of exposing and contradicting so many misrepresentations by which his private and professional character has been aspersed ; and which if unanswered, might have been supposed by some per- sons at least to admit of no satisfactory reply. In one respect the Author feels that an apology is due to his Eeaders. He has endeavoured, as far as the circumstances of the case would permit, to avoid language unnecessarily acrimonious and offensive; he felt that he would have been humilated by replying in the coarse and vituperative style in which he has been assailed ; and he could not condescend to resort to exciting and exaggerated epithets as a substitute for arguments and facts. At the same time, he is aware that he has been compelled to transgress the usual bounds of professional courtesy, which could not have been observed, except at the sacrifice of truth and plain speaking. LEWIS QUIER BOWEKBANK. Kingston, 7th October, 1865,