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Printed account entitled 'Report of the Meeting on behalf of Mr Field, in the case of Wight v Field' (extracted from the British Medical Journal of April 6th 1867)

6 April 1867

From: 1867 To: 1867

The meeting was held 'to offer to Mr Field an expression of sympathy, and to organise a subscription towards reimbursing him the heavy expenses he has incurred in defending himself against a most malicious prosecution in two trials' Mr Field [presumably Octavius] had been accused of acting improperly towards a female patient, named Wight. The charge was dismissed but he had incurred expenses of £800 in his defence With list of gentlemen who formed the Committee to organise the subscription

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Field, Octavius,
Wright

slander, legal process