themselves in the School of
Medicine and have a taste for scientific research.
I cannot but think
that the Microscope (in the use
of which
you
are so skilled) will
ultimately throw more
light
on the mysterious subject of nervous derangement than
any method
of investigation hitherto used. I
hope therefore to hear I have been
misinformed and that you
have not been seduced from
our ranks
by the more brilliant promises
of general practice.
Believe me, Jo (signed) W. M. Bush,
Falconer Esqre
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My
Jr. 7
From Mr. Gairdner
Edinburgh,
Janry 2nd 1854.
Dear Sir,
I have been asked
by Dr Falconer to write to you in
reference to his application for the vacant situation in the Leith
Hospital.
I am not informed
as to who are
likely
to be Candidates,
but I can say of Dr Falconer
that I know him to be an intel-ligent and active practitioner, who has some considerable experience in Cholera, having served at Loanhead during
the last Epidemic,
which