Excerpt from The Treatment of Typhoid Fever: And Reports of Fifty-Five Consecutive Cases, With Only One Death
I trust it will not be supposed that in acceding to the earnest request of Dr. Burr that I should write a few remarks as an introduction for his book, I am at all under the impression that I can do so with authority, or, indeed, with any other object in view than to give a perfectly sincere expression to my regard for an old pupil, who has, in the course of years, and even according to the internal evidence in this work, arrived at a position so independent and so entirely his own, as no longer to require a recommendation. There was, indeed, one occasion since his studentship, on which it was possible for an old teacher to say an effectual word on behalf of Dr. Barr. A member of the House of Commons, forgetful of the restraints which, in an assembly of gentlemen, are usually considered essential in commenting on personal character, had allowed himself the privilege of making a violent and unfair attack on Dr. Barr in respect of a public duty thoroughly well performed, but which happened to be disagreeable to some of the honourable member"s friends. The words might have been actionable, had they been spoken elsewhere than in the House. No one who knew Dr. Barr believed them to be true. But being thus spoken, the effect on the minds of his medical brethren in Liverpool was such, that a document, signed by 187 of them, was at once forwarded to the Secretary of State, as a perfectly spontaneous expression of the indignation felt by the signatories as regards this unprovoked and most reprehensible attack, and of their high appreciation of the character which had been thus injuriously assailed.
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