To this Waterhouse wrote a learned reply, dated April 7, and beginning: “Ever since I received your short but Ciceronean epistle, it has seldom been long out of my mind. It made an impression I cannot get rid of; and therefore, in the true spirit of that religious sect among whom I was educated, I cannot hold my peace . . .”

For a note on Dr. Waterhouse see no. 946. The dedication of this pamphlet, to the Medical Students, Resident Graduates, and Scholars of every class is dated from Cambridge, January 1805.