A statement of the symptoms for which bleeding was thought necessary and adopted, in the case of the late Mr. Leycester [addressed to Rev. E. Stanley] : in reply to an opinion, put forth by Mr. Holland, that such a step was injudicious / [John Harrison].

  • Harrison, John, 1808 or 1809-1880.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A statement of the symptoms for which bleeding was thought necessary and adopted, in the case of the late Mr. Leycester [addressed to Rev. E. Stanley] : in reply to an opinion, put forth by Mr. Holland, that such a step was injudicious / [John Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    known, I shall here take the opportunity of mention¬ ing it. I have been informed, upon the very best authority, which I am quite prepared to give up, if necessary, that at several dinner parties in London, at which many of the families from this immediate neigbourhood were present, Dr. Holland took every possible opportunity of impressing upon their minds the idea that Mr. Leycester had died solely from the effects of his being over-bled. Dr. Holland, however, upon every occasion, forgot to state that his father had been first called in to see Mr. Leycester, and had subsequently been dismissed; which omission, I can have no doubt, was intentional; and had it not been for one to whom I feel much indebted, it would have remained quietly unnoticed, that Mr. Holland had ever seen Mr. Leycester at all. In my opinion, Dr. Holland was not called upon to give the gratuitous opinion he did upon any part of Mr. Leycester’s treatment, and not being ignorant of the circumstances under which his father’s services had been dispensed with, I think delicacy alone, should have induced him to be less liberal in his condemna¬ tion of the treatment of another practitioner. If bleeding was not necessary in Mr. Leycester's case, in the first instance, I could very easily inform Dr. Holland what rendered it so subsequently. As the bleeding appears to have been the only part of the treatment which Mr. Holland considers to have been improper, I shall confine myself to that part of it; and endeavour to shew, I trust satisfactorily, that with the symptoms which presented themselves at