A second appeal to the justice of the intelligent and respectable people of Lexington / by Daniel Drake.

  • Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852.
Date:
1818
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Credit: A second appeal to the justice of the intelligent and respectable people of Lexington / by Daniel Drake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suggestion, it was quite natural to attribute to it the in- fluence which I did. This will be sufficient for all who comprehend the difference between the -words suggestion and nomination ; to those who, like Dr. Dudley, are too ignorant for such distinction.-, I have nothing to say. To subvert my assertion, that Dr. Dudley utterly ne- glected to attend the meetings of the .Society, he has in- troduced the two following certificates: WE, the undersigned, members of the Lexington Medical Society, do i-.eitify, that ])•■. Dudley ('id, during test xrtnter, attend the meet* ici society as 6f£en us appeared consistent with his professional I and further, that we have, ou ciifl'erent: occasions, heard Dr. Dudley and Dr. Drake discuss the same subjects in the society to- gether. (Signed) CHRISTO. GRAHAM, JON A. STOUT, S. P. RUSSELL, J. H. ROYLE. WE, the undersigned, members of the Medical Debating Society, being called upon to certify concerning the attendance of Dis. Dud- ley and Drake at the said society during last winter—state, that we re- collect to have seen Dr. Dudley at four, and Dr Drake at eight meet- ings. We-farther certify, that we recollect once to have heard Drs. Dudley and Drake discuss the same subject. SAM. P. RUSSELL-, JOHN T. PARKER, GEORGE W. VENABLE. Leaing-ton, July 25th, 181S. The first of these is the certificate which Dr. Dudley has inserted twice, and that which I have pronounced to be good for nothing. That this is the case, will appear from the following facts : 1. The gentlemen subscribing it, have not told us how often Dr. Dudley was at the So- ciety ; but only that he attended as frequently as in their opinion, was consistent widi his professional engage- ments. Now this might have been once, or twice. I can assure the gentlemen that they were but indifferent judges on this point ; and, like many others, supposed the Doctor's professional engagements to be more nu- merous than they really were ; as I recollect to have left him, once, at least, at an evening party, when I at- tended the Society. 2. Both Mr. Russell and Mr. Royle, after having, by solicitation, subscribed this certificate, became convinced, by longer recollection, that they had