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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    additional knowledge which may enable them to cure Disease. I confidently trust, Gentlemen, that your re¬ port to your Fellow-Students, founded on what you have heard in this room, will afford ample evidence that this assertion, with regard to my Lectures, is as false as it is calumnious. And I flatter myself you will be able to tell, that, though now an Octogenarian, I can still com¬ municate to my hearers much knowledge which may be useful in the cure of diseases.”