Vindication of the pre-eminent efficacy of manual operations in the cure of rheumatic and nervous diseases : against the malignant and unprincipled attempts of certain members of the medical profession to decry and obstruct the practice / by William Balfour.

Date:
1834
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Credit: Vindication of the pre-eminent efficacy of manual operations in the cure of rheumatic and nervous diseases : against the malignant and unprincipled attempts of certain members of the medical profession to decry and obstruct the practice / by William Balfour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cause he has undertaken, in spite of the difficulties which passion, prejudice, and apathy, have hitherto opposed to it; and he may feel assured, that no person whose opinion is worthy of consideration, will fail, sooner or later, to appre- ciate the indirect insinuations, malignant misrepresentations, and calumnies, which have been aimed at him and his practice, as they deserve.’1—London Medical and Physical Journal, January 1821. (Review of Dr. Balfour’s “ Illustrations of the Efficacy of Compression and Percussion, in the Cure of Rheumatism, Sprains, and Debility of the Extremities.”) 8. “ Dr. Balfour has great merit, both for the ardour with which he has prosecuted the cure of Rheumatism by Compression and Percussion, and the satisfactory grounds on which he has explained the causes of their success ; and his zeal ought not to go unrewarded.”—Code of Health and Longevity, by the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart. 9. “ The numerous cases (of Rheumatism) you give, seem to place the efficacy of your mode of treatment out of the question. By thus adding to your important method of reuniting parts of the living body that have been separated, a new and efficacious cure for one of the most dismal of dis- eases, you will raise yourself to a very high rank among those medical men, who have possessed the sagacity and in- telligence requisite to improve the Medical Art.”—Letter from Thomas Thomson, M.D., F.R.S. L. and E., Pro- cessor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow, to Dr. B of our, 29 th May 1816. 10. The value and efficacy of the practice are acknow- ledged every day, by Physicians and Surgeons of this city, who are at the very top of their respective departments,— men who would be at the head of their profession, wherever they might be placed. 11. Eminent Physicians and Surgeons, both in Edinburgh and elsewhere, have consulted me in their own personal cases; and have candidly admitted the important benefit derived from my advice and operations. 12. The late very distinguished Sir Matthew Baillie, first c