Testimonials presented to the ... Lord Provost, the magistrates, and town council of Edinburgh ... when candidate for the chair of the practice of physic / [John Thomson].

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846
Date:
1821
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Credit: Testimonials presented to the ... Lord Provost, the magistrates, and town council of Edinburgh ... when candidate for the chair of the practice of physic / [John Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■Sf TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN MANDERSTON, Lord Provost, THE MAGISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL OF EDINBURGH. My Lord and Gentlemen, I beg leave to offer myself as a candidate for the Chair of the Practice of Physic, now vacant in the University, by the lamented death of the late Dr Gregory. I have not yet ap¬ plied to any of my medical friends for testimonials of the opinions which they may be pleased to entertain of my qua¬ lifications to fulfil the duties attached to this important situa¬ tion ; but if I receive any such, I shall submit them to your consideration. In the meantime, I take the liberty to lay before you a few documents relative to the professional ap¬ pointments which I have had the honour to hold, and rela¬ tive to a work, which I published about eight years ago, on the subject of Inflammation. Permit me to add, that to obtain the honour of the ap¬ pointment I now solicit, has long been the highest object of Any ambition ; and that the hope I might one day be consi¬ dered as qualified to teach the Practice of Physic, has been A