Letter to the Lord Provost, as chairman of the Court of contributors to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in regard to the proceedings at their last meeting on Monday the 7th January 1822. [And Letter to the... managers occasioned by an extraordinary resolution they have lately entered into] / [Robert Liston].

  • Liston, Robert, 1794-1847.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Letter to the Lord Provost, as chairman of the Court of contributors to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, in regard to the proceedings at their last meeting on Monday the 7th January 1822. [And Letter to the... managers occasioned by an extraordinary resolution they have lately entered into] / [Robert Liston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On the 17th November, that is, next day, I received from Mr Jardine the following letter : “ Dear Sir, Can you give me a call before 12 o’clock to-day. “ Yours, See. (Signed) “ H. Jardine.” “ Robert Liston, Esq. 123. Prince’s-street, “ Saturday Morning.” On the 6th December, I received Mr Jar- dine’s letter, dated December 4. 1821, in which he tells me, I am mistaken in supposing Dr Monro and himself to be a Committee ; and farther on he says, “ But we had no authority from the Managers for doing so ; and I beg that the confidential conversation we had with you on the subject may be distinctly understood as having proceeded from no authority of the Ma- nagers, but from our desire to free you from the suspicion of such conduct.” Here there is an evident wish to get quit of these propositions as made by the authority of the Managers; but there is not the slightest hint that my statement with regard to them was in any way incorrect. This is tantamount to an admission, in so many words, that my statement is true to the smallest tittle. Is it, indeed, conceivable, that any person in his senses could write to two gentlemen, “ You