On scientific medicine, and its relations to, and claims upon, society at large : being an address read before ... the North of England Medical Association ... 1840 / by William Elliot.

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1840
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    MEDICAL PROFESSION IN THESE REALMS, IN REFER- ENCE TO ITS INTERNAL REGULATIONS AND CONSTI- TUTION, TO THE OPERATION OF STATUTE LAWS, AND TO THE INVASIONS OF IRREGULAR PRACTITION- ERS CONNIVED AT BY GOVERNMENT. It is to be feared that the comparative sketch which has now been given, of regular medicine and of modern empiricism, may seem tedious. But the hope may, on the other hand, be enter- tained, that its fulness will enable the two remain- ing heads of this Address to be much more brief- ly disposed of, and their matter and positions to be much more convincingly expounded and en- forced. Thus, not only have the relative charac- ters of medical science and of medical charlatanism been descanted on, but of necessity also not a little of their relative position and of their un- seemly—their disgraceful—contact, in these realms. And again;—the contrast which has, less ably than faithfully, this day been exhibited, will suf- fice, with many, to establish the exclusive title of scientific medicine to the countenance and sup- port of the public and of the government, and will render it unnecessary to urge many arguments on the justice, public expediency, and necessity, of the measures enumerated under our third head. As to the internal condition of the profession in these realms, it is anomalous, and devoid of D