Chair of Materia Medica in the University of Glasgow : additional testimonials in favour of James Finlayson, M.D.

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1880
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    as having made solid additions to the literature of medicine, and especially to the means and facilities for the exact study of disease at the bedside. No one of your own standing, certainly no one in the West ot Scotland, has, in my opinion, done nearly so much as you have, of late years, in the way both of original investigation, and of the clear and precise statement of the methods of clinical research. In one department of Therapeutics, and that one of the most difficult and liable to abuse, the application of electricity and galvanism, you are well known as having pursued, in a thoroughly scientific and successful manner, a mode of practice which is only to be regarded as safe when it is founded on large and accurate knowledge of medicine in general. You have also been much in contact with students of medicine, both independently as a clinical teacher in the Western Infirmary, and at an earlier period, as a practical instructor of the Clinical Classes under my own superintend- ence ; and I can most truly affirm that your services rendered in these positions have been such as to entitle you to the most entire confidence, in any such promotion as that to which you now aspire. Such, very briefly stated, are my reasons for heartily desiring your success.—I am, yours very truly, W. T. GAIRDNER. From W. R. Sanders, Esq., M.D., Professor of Pathology ami Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh. 30 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 12th March, 1SS0. Dr. James Finlayson early acquired a reputation by his researches and papers in various departments of Clinical Medicine. This reputation he has greatly extended and confirmed by the publication of his “Clinical Manual for the studv of Medical Cases.” Dr. Finlayson has shown that J