The bloodlettings of Adam Smith’s private pupil Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice

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Act II: “Bloodletting” (Glasgow College, 1760) [*] The next direct evidence of Smith’s encounters with the “absurd prescriptions” of doctors are two pieces of correspondence–one dated March 10, 1760 (Corr. 45); the other, Nov. 11, 1760 (Corr. 52)–both of which … Continue reading →