| Description | Manuscript letter from Henry Smith to Richard Butcher explaining his failure to get a review of Butcher's work on the knee joint published in the Medical Times, due to his friend Spencer Wells leaving the post as editor. The letter then discusses the best way to counter Syme's views in the Lancet, suggesting Butcher sends him a copy of the monograph to 'counter the misapprehension which exists in his mind that excision of the knee is not as successful as amputation. Smith views Smye's lectures as 'a disgrace to the profession', comments on [William] Fergussons 'flap' at Syme, and gives his belief that Syme's 'if he does not[let] the greatest lies, he keeps back a great quantity of truth.' |