Observations on the cancerous breast: consisting chiefly of original correspondence between the author and Dr Baillie, Mr Cline, Dr Babington, Mr Abernethy and Dr Stokes. Published by permission of the writers. With an introductory letter to Mr. Pitcairn / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Observations on the cancerous breast: consisting chiefly of original correspondence between the author and Dr Baillie, Mr Cline, Dr Babington, Mr Abernethy and Dr Stokes. Published by permission of the writers. With an introductory letter to Mr. Pitcairn / by Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    LETTER II. TO POCTOR BAILLIE. Auguft 20, 1796. LET me firft thank you, my dear Sir, for the terms in which you permit me to print our correfpondence. At a dis- tance from fcience, from hofpitals, from differing rooms, and often from books, to be thus remembered by thofe who luxuriate in all thefe delights, may for a time renew thofe fcenes we have relu&antly left, and make us anxious to protract the charming illufion. / I know not whether I fhould raoft adrpire the readinefs with which you forgive an unprovoked harfhnefs of language, or the franknefs with which you admit the truth of a remark.* It would, at leaft, have be- * “ Were my book to come to a fecond edition, I fhould make a diftindtion between thefe two difeafes, and fhould mention, at the fame time, that you have very properly taken notice that they ought to be dif- tinguifhed.’> Extract from a private letter from Dr. Baillie dated July 30, 1796. See alfo Morbid Anatomy, 2d edition, 1798, p. 366. come