An exposition of Dr. Collins's misrepresentations of Dr. Hamilton's practical precepts [on midwifery], in a letter addresed to the editor of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science / [James Hamilton].

  • Hamilton, James, 1767-1839.
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1838 [1839]
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Credit: An exposition of Dr. Collins's misrepresentations of Dr. Hamilton's practical precepts [on midwifery], in a letter addresed to the editor of the Dublin Journal of Medical Science / [James Hamilton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not only to reiterate his former mis-statements, but to bring forward additional misrepresentations which, at least in this quarter of the empire, could not have been hazarded by any person of respectability. As upon those misrepresentations Dr Collins has founded very injurious charges against him, it might have been supposed that Dr Hamilton should have disregarded an article of such a character, as an in¬ dividual in his status is entitled to do. But the subject at issue is of too much importance, both to the profession and to the public at large, for Dr Hamilton to allow himself to be actuated by per¬ sonal considerations. The object of his publication was to communicate to the profession, and especially to its junior members, certain deviations from the or¬ dinary modes of practice, calculated, according to his experience, to alleviate human sufferings, and to save life in particular cases of difficulty and danger, an object which must be completely defeated by a misrepresen¬ tation of his doctrines and opinions. He therefore published, in the number of the Dublin Journal for November last (No. XLL), a full exposition of the mis¬ representations of Dr Collins, of which the following is a correct co})y. The reader will find that Dr Collins has deliberately misrepresented Dr Hamilton’s Practical Precepts, by the discreditable artifice garhVimj extracts, suhstitut- iiig words for those used by the Author, and infer’- polaling expressions not contained in the text.