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 professo [sic] of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan, sen.

  • 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 professo [sic] of institutions of medicine, as an individual / by Andrew Duncan, sen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    marks on three very dangerous diseases, Scorbutus, Has- morrhoea, and Febris. When treating of the cure of these diseases, I have presented you with the fruits of my own observations in an extensive practice of Medi¬ cine, for more than fifty years; and, during that long period, I have had an opportunity of conducting the cure of diseases in different situations and in different climates. For although, during the greater part of my active life, I have been a medical practitioner in Edin¬ burgh, yet I have had an opportunity of practising the healing art in three different quarters of the world, not only in Europe, but also both in Asia and in Africa. “ In communicating, however, to my hearers in this room, knowledge which may aid them in the cure of dis¬ eases, I have, in another way, done more than any Pro¬ fessor can be supposed to do from his own experience, however extensive, however judicious, however attentive. I have given you, although a concise, yet, I trust, a faithful account of all the most important practical dis¬ coveries which have lately been published respecting the three diseases I have mentioned, particularly Scorbutus; with regard to which, such interesting improvements, in the way of prevention, have lately been made, that Sea-scurvy is now almost banished from the British Navy, even during the longest voyages. “ From extensive reading, and deliberate study, I have been enabled to communicate to my students much useful practical knowledge, which, without very ready access to books, and without much time and serious re¬ flection, they could not have obtained from the original authors by whom it has been published. “ I leave you, therefore, to judge, with what regard to truth it has lately been asserted, by one of my col¬ leagues in this University, and even in print, that, from me as an individual Professor, students can derive no