Testimonials in favour of James Adams, M.D., L.R.C.S.E., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, Glasgow, late examiner in chemistry to Fac. Phys. and Surg., Glasgow, formerly senior president of the Hunterian Medical Society, Edinburgh, and member of various learned associations.

Date:: [1872]

Credit: Testimonials in favour of James Adams, M.D., L.R.C.S.E., Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow, president of the Medico-Chirurgical Society, Glasgow, late examiner in chemistry to Fac. Phys. and Surg., Glasgow, formerly senior president of the Hunterian Medical Society, Edinburgh, and member of various learned associations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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From KOBEET K. TATLOCK, F.R.S., Edin., F.C.S., Lond., Analytical Chemist ; Author of various puUished coniributions on Chemistry. It gives me mncli pleasure to have this opportunity of recording the high estimation in which I have always held Dr. Adams, as an authority in Medico-Legal enquiries. During the nine years in which I acted as Senior Assistant in the laboratory of the Andersonian University, there were few of the criminal cases investigated there, in which he was not associated with the late Dr. Penny, so that I had constant—almost daily—occasion to observe his skill in advising and directing experiments bearing on the numerous and varied cases and I feel convinced, that, in many instances, he was instrumental in bringing the enquiry to a successful issue. In the tedious and pro- tracted investigation connected with the famous Pritchard case, the well known Physiological experiments were, in Dr. Penny's absence devised by Dr. Adams, and conducted exclusively by him and myself^ and to those who have read and can appreciate the published results,' I need hardly say that the scheme adopted was a complete success' ending as it did in establishing the presence of a poison which purely chemical methods utterly fail to discover. I have always since re- garded that method of detecting poisons, for which there is no satis- factory chemical test, as original, skillful, and refined, and as reflect- ing the highest credit on Dr. Adams, as a Toxicologist. I have had the advantage of knowing Dr. Adams for upwards of fifteen years, and my experience during that time, of his excellent character and scientific attainments, impels me to say, that he has all the qualities which entitle him to the highest position as a teacher of Medical Jurisprudence. I regard him as a scholar and a gentleman and from my own long experience of Medical Students, I am satis- ted be would at once command and retain the esteem and respect of a University Class. ^ It is almost unnecessary for me to refer to Dr. Adams's well known powers as a Microscopist-an attainment most essential to a professor of Medical Jurisprudence. ROBERT R. TATLOCK. From R. CARTER MOFFAT, Ph.D., '^'^ Veterinary College; Teacher of knowl ]Dr *'^'^A ^'T opportunity of stating that I have J^nown Dr. James Adams for a number of years, and that there are'

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