A letter to Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh in consequence of certain printed papers intituled, "The viper and file"; "There is wisdom in silence"; "An old story"; &c., which have lately been distributed by him / by Andrew Duncan senior, M.D. & P. and senior censor of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

  • Duncan, Andrew, 1744-1828.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A letter to Dr. James Gregory of Edinburgh in consequence of certain printed papers intituled, "The viper and file"; "There is wisdom in silence"; "An old story"; &c., which have lately been distributed by him / by Andrew Duncan senior, M.D. & P. and senior censor of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tftily query subjoined to that Memorial was, Whether any one of our number, who might supply his own pa- tients with medicines, in the manner so strongly recom- mended by Dr John Gregory, would thereby transgress our act 1754 or not ? Mr Erskine was of opinion, that, by following the plan Dr John Gregory proposed, there would be no transgression of the law. Mr Clerk was of a contrary opinion. In Dr Gregory’s comments on the answer of Mr Clerk to this question, he contends, that the mode of practice strongly recommended by his own father, would reduce medicine to a miserable and infa- mous state of degradation. To any candid man who reads the Memorial and Query alluded to, it must ap- pear perfectly evident, that, upon the supposition that Mr Clerk’s opinion was seasoned with that hyper-oxy- genated salt which Dr Gregory alleges, the sarcasm could strike only against his own Father. But, as I have already said, Mr Clerk’s letter to me abundantly demonstrates, that the sarcastic wit here attributed to him is a mere chimera. The second point, Sir, on which I beg leave to make a few observations, is with regard to a difference be- tween Dr Wright’s recollection and mine, respecting what passed in a meeting of the Counsel, in August 1806, when Dr Stuart suggested that admonition, the origin of which he has already explained to the CoD lege.