A reply to Philip Thicknesse's letter / published by the author of the Medical cautions.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A reply to Philip Thicknesse's letter / published by the author of the Medical cautions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ” ] you in the Circus, and made my apology, and on the 31ft, being five days after, I quitted Bath. A conftitutional franknefs of temper, which has fometimes fubjedted me to in¬ convenience, prompted me, in the inftant, to mention my intention to your fon, with¬ out reflecting on the impropriety of it. This impropriety, however, foon oc¬ curred to me, when I reflected that I fhould officioufly interfere with another phyfician, in whom, and very juftly, your family placed an implicit confidence, in¬ dependent of the confideration that my hidden departure from Bath would totally difqualify me for doing your daughter juftice, were fhe even difpofed to follow my advice. Will any medical man of character, after perufing this plain and candid ftate of the cafe, confider me as having been in any B 4 refpedt