On the craniotomy forceps of Dr. Davis, in reply to Mr. Rawlins of Oxford / by David D. Davis.

  • Davis, David D., 1777-1841.
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: On the craniotomy forceps of Dr. Davis, in reply to Mr. Rawlins of Oxford / by David D. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    II. On the Craniotomy Forceps of Dr. Datis, in Reply to Mr. Rawlins of Oxford. Bv David D. Davis, M.D. Phy- sician to the Queen’s Lying-in Hospital, to the Lying-in Charity, Sec. Sec. I beg to acknowledge my obligations for the repeated and extended notices which have been taken of my Craniotomy For- ceps in the London Medical Repository*, and more especially for the honour of the favourable opinion of me, as expressed in the last number, (September,) in reference to the letter of “ the venerable accoucheur” of Oxford. I am unwilling, however, that the kind apology of the Editoes for me should remain my only shield against the effects of Mr. Rawlins’ unqualified and unfounded counter pretensions. It does not often happen that useful inventions are left unmolested by attempts of envious or interested men to dis- parage their merits; and among such attempts the most frequent are those, like the present, which have for their object the subversion or vitiation of the claim of an Inventor to the credit of originality. In being made the object of a public attack of this kind, I might indeed feel, that my accuser has placed me * Repository, vol. viii. No. 43,44, 45.