Another letter to a young physician : to which are appended some other medical papers / by James Jackson.

  • Jackson, James, 1777-1867.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Another letter to a young physician : to which are appended some other medical papers / by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pally my brethren in New England, and especially the Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Indeed, I have felt almost as if preparing a circular letter to these Fellows. To this eighteenth letter some articles are added which will, I hope, be read with interest by medical men, and not be without some attraction for general readers in the region about Boston. The critic may note in this book the garrulous tendency common in old age. If he cannot, I can. I claim the apology, which the aged may always offer in such a case. When a traveller returns home, he has a right to suppose that his friends and neighbors will like to hear what he can tell of foreign parts. Just so, old men and old women are justified in the belief that the young will be glad to hear anecdotes of old times and notices of the people who were cotemporaries of their grandfathers. The travellers through the bygone years ■