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LIBERAL MATHEMATICS,
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NO . II . A REPLY TO THE LANCET . The article , under the above title in our January Number , in which we denounced an equally unjust and wild-minded attack on Mr Finlaison , that had appeared in the € British Medical Almanack / has produced a rejoinder in the * Lancet' of the 21 s _ t
of last month , from a person who styles himself *' T . K . Edmonds , Esq . B , A ., author of ' Life Tables / and who , as he says , ' now throws off his mask , " and avows that he wrote the anonymous attack in question . We remarked it as passing strange that the Almanack had in the same number an article
" on the Statistics of Mortality ; " in which a table , copied from Dr Southwood Smith ' s work , on the ' Laws of Mortality in Fever / and computed by Mr Finlaison , is praised ( see page 137 ) as one of the two most important contributions which have yet been made to medical statistics . " The Almanack announced this article to be " By T . K . Edmonds , B . A ., author of 4 life
Tables '"—whereas , in the other article , entitled " On the incapacity of the statistical officers employed by the English Government , " which was then anonymous , but now avowed by the same unblushing individual to be also his production , the very table , so supplied to Dr Smith by Mr Finlaison , is abused . —See page 179 . He states " Dr S . Smith furnished him ( Mr
Finlaison ) with a report of deaths and cases of sickness at each age occurring at the London Hospital . Mr Finlaison gave his results , but adhered to his general practice of withholding the facts on which his results were founded . " We showed that Dr S . Smith , not Mr Finlaison , withheld the facts because the publication of them was not necessary for
his immediate object . We may now add , as Mr Edmonds seems to be incapable of speaking truth even by accident , that Dr Smith did not furnish Mr Finlaison with any report of deaths , &c . &c . but did much better . He placed in the calculator ' s experienced hands the original books of the hospitals , who deduced all the facts himself , as well as the important arithmetical results of which this detractor has availed himself
But let us enquire into this " T . K . Edmunds , Esq . B . A ^ who , on the selfsame topic , in the same publication , bestows welUmerited praise in the article written with his " mask " off , and wholesale detraction with his mask on ? We remarked in our previous comment that the writer had evidently been influenced by some personal pique Or othei ^ It now appears we were pretty right . He says , " in my I 4 f © Tables , published five years ago , I stated , without mentioning
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Liberal Mathematics * 181
Liberal Mathematics,
LIBERAL MATHEMATICS ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/55/
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