Volume 2

The Hunterian oration: delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the 14th day of February, 1828 / by Sir William Blizard.

  • Blizard, William, Sir, 1743-1835.
Date:
1828
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Hunterian oration: delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, on the 14th day of February, 1828 / by Sir William Blizard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    power of preventing the practice, for lucre, of pretenders to the knowledge of the mystery or faculty of Surgery, who, from their total igno¬ rance, arid unskilfulness, occasioned infinite misfortunes, and even death, to divers liege people. Thus, in remote time, were people saved from misery, and death: Humanity de¬ plores the fatal reverse in these days! Now, alas ! Men, totally ignorant of that art and science the practice of which they have the audacity to profess ; unrestrained by natural feeling, by moral sentiment, or by a sense of religious obligation; are sporting with the health, happiness, and lives, of human be¬ ings, without legal controul; whilst honourable Members of the College are obliged, by a late Statute, to comply with a degrading submis¬ sion; or to forego general practice full of