Lizars against Syme.

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[1852]
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Credit: Lizars against Syme. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LIZARS against SYME. SlE, Edinburgh, 19, St. Andrew Square, 3d September, 1852. _ ^ have been directed to transmit for your considers firm c, i • • n Resolutions, noth. Extract from the Caledonian Mercury. U JOinec I have the honour to be, SlE, 1 our most obedient Servant, James Laing, Secretary and Treasurer. At a Meeting of the Friends of Mr. Ltzars, Surgeon, held at Edinburgh the 27th day of August 185. D 1 Renton in the Chair, the following Resolutions were moved and unanimous^ L - LJS rsjss rjt venuct °{* j- - — Gentleman, and their unabated confidence in him as a Suroc . J ^ lmimshed respect for Mr- Lizars as a expressing the feeling of the public on this subject, would be lT ’ C°nSlder’ that an appropriate form., of the expenses incurred in the necessary defence of his reputation7 or f ^ T’ ^ ^ PUrp°S<3 °f either ^“dating “ may be deemed adviSaUe’ and that a Subscription be immediate^ set on ^ ^ ^ wbo i“ “ -*• «**nd»—» John Renton, M.D., Chairman. James Latng, Secretary and Treasurer. Extract from the Calcdouiau Mercury, Second Edition, 5th Angnst, 1852 The wisdom of Gotham, erroneously supposed to have become extinct has just aol • , , the medium of a verdict pronounced in the First Division of the Jury cLt in Te C § fT inaUgm'ati°n thr0USh shed report of which has been put into our hands. A verdirt wl,u/ • tl ’ • , CaSC °f Lizars against Syme, a 0LJwelve conspicuous niches in the Great Temple of Folly, appropriately S°lonSwho Pronounced ibers of Gotham, it seems, may slumber, but do never die, and one of the h‘ l “ “ 7 a’ld Capped in beUs- The 1 pred0us fires and fon them occasionally into the glare of absurdity W ag<? t0 &ge Wat°h 0Ver e Foreman of a Scottish Jury. a now Covered himself in the person of 2“; 117 ^ zj: “tc of *he <*—1 -«»™ - of !M, W. l„n 1.” The view bj CCC ”‘f E^‘ e. He says to the Jury in his opening address ‘‘Yo teJi 'S ”* regai'd ‘° ** n°te seems ** correct c defender received, that the omitted p^tiW ^ T n *** «, .w w. -y—_ - «a ::