A narrative of certain particular facts which have been misrepresented : relative to the conduct of Mr. Bromfeild [sic] toward Mr. Aylett ... during their attendance on Mr. Benwell at Eton. With a letter to Mr. Benwell, and that gentleman's answer / by William Bromfeild [sic].

  • Bromfield, William, 1712-1792.
Date:
1759
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Credit: A narrative of certain particular facts which have been misrepresented : relative to the conduct of Mr. Bromfeild [sic] toward Mr. Aylett ... during their attendance on Mr. Benwell at Eton. With a letter to Mr. Benwell, and that gentleman's answer / by William Bromfeild [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before I left Eton: and hoped that the reft of the cure might.be perform’d with harmony of all parties : for that difputes of this kind difgrace the profeffion in ge¬ neral; and ferve no other purpofe but a- mufement to the public, who turn both the difputants always to ridicule. This did not prove fatisfadtory; for foon after I re¬ ceived a letter from Mr. Aylett, in which he alledged that 11 he could not but think my “ conduB as to fome efiential rights in buji- iC nefs, had been irregular at leaft; partial- “ larly in the Jol/owing points: firjl in my “ accepting and attempting to put in prac• tc ties -Mr.Howard’s deputation to me to ope- “ rate for him, without djking his confenfy fc fecondly, in dire Bing and giving medicines u without his concurrence or knowledge; arid thirdly in my removing the firjl ’drejjings ,c without his being prefent.” . In anfwer to this, I wrote him word that: « on re-con Adeline what he had taken o “ amifs in my condudt at Mr. Benwell'a, I was fenfible, that according to the pun&i- “ lios of politenefs, which in ftridnefs might “ be inAfted on by gentlemen of the pro- D 2 feflion*