Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy.

  • Jesse, George R. (George Richard)
Date:
1880
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Credit: Correspondence with T. Spencer Wells, F.R.C.S. ... on ovariotomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ Publicity is the Soul of Justice.”—Bbntham. THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. OVARIOTOMY. LETTER FROM ROBERT MaCORMICK, R.N., F.R.C.S. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; Chief Medical Officer and Naturalist to the Antarctic Expedition in Voyage of “Erebus” and “ Terror,” &c., &c., &c. To GEOKGE E. JESSE, Esq., Honorary Secretary and Treasurer for the Society for the Total Abolition and Utter Suppression of Vivisection, Henbury, near Macclesfield, Cheshire. Wimbledon, April 12th, 1880. Mt Dear Jbsse, I need scarcely say, I have read your Pamphlet on the “ Ovariotomy Controversy,” which you kindly sent me, with the deepest interest and satisfaction; and from the able and skilful way by which you have disposed of your opponent, I look upon your letter as a masterpiece of reasoning, which would have done credit to either a Legal or Medical Authority. None could have acquitted themselves better,—few so well. Indeed, so little have you left to be said on the subject, that, but for my being a “ Member of the Council ” of the Society which owes its very existence to yourself and for which you have so indefa- tigably and honourably laboured, I should not have felt myself called upon to make any comments at aU,—so complete and exhaustive have been your own discussion of the subject in all its bearings.