Excerpt from Letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts: Containing Remarks on the Dislocation on the Hip Joint, Occasioned by the Publication of a Trial Which Took Place at Machias, in the State of Maine, June, 1824

Dear Sir,

It may be thought strange, by some persons, that I should address to you a pamphlet on a subject appertaining to the medical profession. This liberty I have been led to take, partly from having intimated to you in conversation, that my opinion had been misrepresented in the publication which has drawn forth these sheets, and partly, from having considered this topic to be connected with jurisprudence, as well as medicine: but principally, that I might add respectability to these remarks by the sanction of a name, high in official station, and still higher in public confidence and respect.

The circumstances which involved me in this trial, and compelled me to make this publication, were briefly these. An individual, who had met with a grievous injury, applied to me for professional aid. This was administered to him to the utmost of my ability. He went away, and I considered my concern in the case to be closed. Much to my surprise, and I may say, dissatisfaction, after the lapse of a considerable time, I was summoned, in a legal way, to give a deposition to the facts of this case, within my cognizance.

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