A reply to the charges made by Dr. Edward Smith, upon his dismissal from the offices of lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School / by a governor of the Hospital.

Date:
1853
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A reply to the charges made by Dr. Edward Smith, upon his dismissal from the offices of lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School / by a governor of the Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    “ A grandiloquent opening is too often succeeded by a puerile conclu- sion. Parturient mountains have, ere now, produced muscipular abortions; and he who compares incipient grandeur with final insignificance is strongly reminded of the pious hawkers of Constantinople, who solemnly perambulate her streets exclaiming, ‘ In the name of the Prophet—figs !’ ’’ Smith.—Bejected Addresses.