A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professor of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1825
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Credit: A speech delivered at a quarterly statutory meeting of the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, on the 15th of January 1825, accusing James Hamilton of having published a false and calumnious libel against the Senatus Academicus as a corporate body; against the institutions of medicine, as a branch of education at Edinburgh; and against the present professor of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I .„ccveIyl,opc. Sir, that, for your own credit, vou hereafter relinquish the arrogant vanity of in,i„ua tn.g that your lectures on these subjects Jo j^ZZ- aucfons, and that students can derive no additional knowledge from hearing other teachers. Your worthy Father, more than fifty years ago, mentioned, with great approbation, my Theory of Menstruation, which was very different from that then taught either by Dr Cul EEN or Dr MoNito secundus; and he also expressed much satisfaction with the principles on which I recom mended, that the cure of amenorrhea and me„onl,a<na shonlcl be conducted. ^ I firmly believe, Sir, that there is not one Professor m the University, from whose Lectures, as well as from mme, you might not derive additional knowledge. From your consummate opinion of your own wisdom you may view my conduct, in bringing this accusation agamst you, as highly culpable ; yet I can with confi- dence venture to affirm, that I am perfectly innocent of any ammus injuriandi, and that, as far as you are con- cerned, I am actuated anly by an animus reformandi I am satisfied, in my own mind, that, in me, it is much more meritorious to sacrifice private feelings than to de- sert what I consider as my indispensable duty to the University. But, without mentioning other particulars, in which Students who liave attended yom- lectures on Midwifery may obtain additional knowledge from my lectures, I shall conclude with telling you, that, afte tlie public 1