The Lord Provost having signified on Friday the 1st of June, that some Members of the Town-Council were desirous of having Testimonials in favour of Dr. Home, the following ... were immediately procured / [James Home].

  • Home, James, 1760-1844.
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[1821]
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Credit: The Lord Provost having signified on Friday the 1st of June, that some Members of the Town-Council were desirous of having Testimonials in favour of Dr. Home, the following ... were immediately procured / [James Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LETTER from The Very Reverend George Baird to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Mv Lord, Ramsay-Lodge, June 4. 1821. I most willingly comply with your Lordship’s desire to receive from me a Testimonial in respect to the character and merits of Dr Home, as a Candidate for the vacant Chair of the Practice of Physic. Permit me, therefore, to state the impressions which his conduct, as a member of our Academical Body, and his success as a Professor of Materia Me- dica, have made on me. I entertain, then, my Lord, the deepest and most conscientious con¬ viction, that Dr Home is not only adequately, but that he is eminently qualified to fill the vacant Chair, with high satisfaction and benefit to the Students, and consequently with signal advantage to the prosperity and honour of the Medical School. He was appointed a Professor twenty-three years ago; and I remem¬ ber well the flattering attestations of respectable talents, acquirements, and habits, which he then received. And it is my official duty to de¬ clare that, during the whole period of his incumbency, I have uniform¬ ly had complete reason to be perfectly satisfied with his conciliatory man¬ ners in the private intercourse of life, and with his judicious and upright principles in the public privileges of the Senatus, as well as with his ar¬ dent zeal for both the particular interests of his Class and the general interests of the University, His travels in Germany, France and Italy, during four years of pre¬ paratory Medical Study, gave him ample opportunity of adding all the