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Memoirs Of William Perfect, M. D.
the Christian . A small marble entablature appears on a pillar contiguous to the spot where his remains are deposited , which was erected by his son , as the last filial tribute he could pay to so revered a parent . The inscription is in Latin ; the purport , that he was vicar of that church , with his age , and the time of his decease , concluding -with this line :
" Plura diei noluif Vir Optimo . " Dr . Perfect , in the cultivation of his genius , has not escaped the shafts of criticism ; but , considering that censure is a tax which every man pays for being eminent , we shall pass over that circumstance without farther animadversion . The eminence lie has obtained in the line of his profession is a criterion of the excellence of his
ta-Jents , while the number of publications of which he is the author , and the success with which they have appeared , evince the scope of his abilities . The Medical Museum owed much of its reputation to the communications of this Gentleman . " An Attempt to improve Medical Prognostication , " " The Case of a Catalepsy , " " The Appearances on
dissecting a Woman . isaho died from eating too great a Quantity of Cucumbers , " among many other articles of his information to the proprietors of that work , form prominent features not only of his wish , but of his ability to impart medical knowledge . About the year 1787 he first published , with remarks , quotations , and observations , his " Cases of Midwifery , " in two volumes octavo , founded on the literary correspondence of the late learned and ingenious Dr . Colin Mackenzie , which are rendered of superior value , as containing the only traits pf that respectable Gentleman ' s practice which have hitherto been
submitted to the public eye . From the practical and scientific tendency of these volumes , it is but justice to aver , that they have not been equalled since the publication of Cases on the same subject by Monsieur La Motte , a celebrated French accoucheur . A second edition of these Cases appeared in the year 1790 ; and soon after he published , in one ' volume' octavo , "Select Cases of Insanity " dedicated to Dr . John Coakley Lettsom : and if the merit of this work be to
lie ascertained by the rapidity of the sale , too much cannot be said in its praise , upwards of a thousand copies having been sold since its first appearance , and we understand a second edition is at this time preparing for the press . In the ' year 1791 Dr . P . published " A Remarkable Case of Madness , " with the medicines used in the cure , dedicated to Dr . Win . Rowley , of
Saville Row : so singular an instance of insanity , at the earty period of eleven years , is not to be found in the records of medicine ; and the cure is an additional proof of the judgment , skill , ' ant } experience ofthe author , in the treatment of confirmed mania . Plis "Address to the . Public on the Subject of Insanity , " in quarto , decorated with an elegant engraving suitable to the occasion , is humane , open , and manly , and highly interesting to all who can feel for the sufferings of their fellow-creatures ^ 'when so deplorable a circumstance occurs as a derangement of the ' mental system .
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Memoirs Of William Perfect, M. D.
the Christian . A small marble entablature appears on a pillar contiguous to the spot where his remains are deposited , which was erected by his son , as the last filial tribute he could pay to so revered a parent . The inscription is in Latin ; the purport , that he was vicar of that church , with his age , and the time of his decease , concluding -with this line :
" Plura diei noluif Vir Optimo . " Dr . Perfect , in the cultivation of his genius , has not escaped the shafts of criticism ; but , considering that censure is a tax which every man pays for being eminent , we shall pass over that circumstance without farther animadversion . The eminence lie has obtained in the line of his profession is a criterion of the excellence of his
ta-Jents , while the number of publications of which he is the author , and the success with which they have appeared , evince the scope of his abilities . The Medical Museum owed much of its reputation to the communications of this Gentleman . " An Attempt to improve Medical Prognostication , " " The Case of a Catalepsy , " " The Appearances on
dissecting a Woman . isaho died from eating too great a Quantity of Cucumbers , " among many other articles of his information to the proprietors of that work , form prominent features not only of his wish , but of his ability to impart medical knowledge . About the year 1787 he first published , with remarks , quotations , and observations , his " Cases of Midwifery , " in two volumes octavo , founded on the literary correspondence of the late learned and ingenious Dr . Colin Mackenzie , which are rendered of superior value , as containing the only traits pf that respectable Gentleman ' s practice which have hitherto been
submitted to the public eye . From the practical and scientific tendency of these volumes , it is but justice to aver , that they have not been equalled since the publication of Cases on the same subject by Monsieur La Motte , a celebrated French accoucheur . A second edition of these Cases appeared in the year 1790 ; and soon after he published , in one ' volume' octavo , "Select Cases of Insanity " dedicated to Dr . John Coakley Lettsom : and if the merit of this work be to
lie ascertained by the rapidity of the sale , too much cannot be said in its praise , upwards of a thousand copies having been sold since its first appearance , and we understand a second edition is at this time preparing for the press . In the ' year 1791 Dr . P . published " A Remarkable Case of Madness , " with the medicines used in the cure , dedicated to Dr . Win . Rowley , of
Saville Row : so singular an instance of insanity , at the earty period of eleven years , is not to be found in the records of medicine ; and the cure is an additional proof of the judgment , skill , ' ant } experience ofthe author , in the treatment of confirmed mania . Plis "Address to the . Public on the Subject of Insanity , " in quarto , decorated with an elegant engraving suitable to the occasion , is humane , open , and manly , and highly interesting to all who can feel for the sufferings of their fellow-creatures ^ 'when so deplorable a circumstance occurs as a derangement of the ' mental system .