Excerpt from Evidence of Professional Acquirements Submitted to the Honourable the Patrons of the University of Edinburgh

I may also be permitted to add, that the writers of the greater number are either not known to me personally, or will now learn, for the first time, what author they were criticising. This remark applies more especially to the Medical Essays in the form of reviews published in the Quarterly Journals, all of which (except four or five) were published, as is customary, anonymously.

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