A refutation of certain calumnies published in a pamphlet, entitled, "Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. Nathaniel Chapman" / by Granville Sharp Pattison, esq.

  • Pattison, Granville Sharp, 1791-1851.
Date:
1820
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Credit: A refutation of certain calumnies published in a pamphlet, entitled, "Correspondence between Mr. Granville Sharp Pattison and Dr. Nathaniel Chapman" / by Granville Sharp Pattison, esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER FROM DR. CH\LMERS. Glasgow, 4th January, 1819. Granville Sharp Pattison, Esq. MX DEAR SIR, I enclose you the letter which I have written respecting you to Doctor Ma- son, of New York, and at the same time I cannot contemplate even the possi- bility of your leaving us without expressing the sense which I entertain of the many obligations under which you have laid me—both as my teacher and as my medical attendant. I regret that tlr; urgency of my professional avocation has hitherto pre- vented me from completing my course of Anatomy—a science rich in the evi- dence of divine workmanship, and the principles of which, as well as the most minute and exquisite details, of which you are so well qualified to demon- strate. I am well aware of your professional ardour, and also of the guarantee which this affords for your professional eminence. Let me only intreat you, that it will be subordinated to another order, which ought to be the engrossing prin- ciple of every heart. You guess that I advert to the great matter of Religion, for which you may afford all the room to which it is entitled, and that too without excluding from its place the studies and labours of that respectable calling, which you have chosen as your tract and your path way through the rapid pilgrimage of this world. It may look a paradox—but it is not the less true, that when Re- ligion takes in the human mind that part of supremacy which belongs to it, it may enliven the very pursuit upon which it stamps a character of inferiority, and if there be a pursuit in which it is more possible than another to be both not slothful in the business of it, and at the same time fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, it is surely connected with yours, when by any new step of advancement, you either gain some new view characteristic of the Creator's wisdom, or impart some new benefit to the creatures of his love. Boyle is a very noble example, of one who contained all that was peculiar in the creed and practice of Christianity, with that ardent and inquisitive faculty which lead him so luminously forward in the career of science. Believe me, my dear sir, Yours, very truly, THOMAS CHALMERSl LETTER FROM DR. BARCLAY. Edinburgh, 31st December, 1818. MI DEAR SIR, If you be still of the opinion that the vacant Anatomical chair of Philadel- phia is an object worthy of your ambition, however much your native city and your native country may have cause to regret it, I should think it un- friendly to throw any obstruction in your way, or to damp that ardour and spi- rit of enterprise which promise so much for the advancement and improve- ment of Anatomy. With these sentiments, I have written the enclosed for Dr. Mease, of Philadelphia, informing him as seriously as upon soul and con- science, what I think he and his fellow citizens may have reason to expect from you, if they elect you to the vacant chair. And with every good wish, ever am, My dear sir, Yours, most truly, (Signed) JOHN BARCLAY. Granville Sharp Pattison, Esq. Surgeon, Glasgow,