Testimonials in favour of David Johnston as candidate for the Chair of Materia Medica.

Date:
1832
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Credit: Testimonials in favour of David Johnston as candidate for the Chair of Materia Medica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of the largest Charitable Institutions of this City, containing a population of not less than Five hundred persons of all ages. I may be permitted, before finishing, to add—as will be seen in one of the following documents—that I have been de- prived of most invaluable testimonials by the lamented death of the illustrious Cuvier. My intercourse with him was of such a nature as to have ensured me a powerful, and, from such a man, most invaluable testimonial. The death of M. Laugier, and of various other individuals connected with the Medical School of Paris, in like manner, has diminished the expected number of my Certificates. Had my time been less limited, I should also have been able to have added to my list documents from Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Pavia, Padua, Geneva, and many of the principal cities of France. I have already mentioned in my Circular, that feelings of delicacy towards the late Dr Duncan and his Family prevent- ed me from starting so soon as some other Candidates. This, of course, I do not regret, although it has been the means of depriving me of valuable Testimonials from professional friends in Edinburgh, whose influence and interest had, I found, been previously secured in favour of other Candidates. Respectfully submitting the documents which follow to {(IIbO. iti nmiayfi * *0. ol/l \ i 11 ^ your consideration, 1*0 ai.no; > 'to » a i- j I have the honour to be, *'I_• i «> y, My Lord and Gentlemen, I * tnIoDfiivI ;to yJcujos /JilH ' 1 -ib Your most obedient and very humble servant, DAVID JOHNSTON, M. D. 34, Queen Street, 7 th June 1332.