President's address, delivered at the forty-first annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in London, August 1872 / by Sir W. Fergusson.

  • William Fergusson
Date:
1873
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Credit: President's address, delivered at the forty-first annual meeting of the British Medical Association, held in London, August 1872 / by Sir W. Fergusson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Prichard, Crosse, Bardsley, and others, com¬ prising to a large extent the foremost of the provincial practitioners in England, were impressed with the conviction that the mem¬ bers of our profession scattered over the length and breadth of the land, were united by no stronger tie than the general one of a common brotherhood, which merely secured (if indeed it did that), professional courtesy between man and man. There seemed no other com¬ mon bond ; for the sources of education, li¬ censes to practice, and degrees of distinction, were so numerous, so varied, and the local head quarters of the profession at so many different points, that the link of one with the other was of the feeblest description. The men referred to saw that the time had come when members of a great and noble profession might be held together by ties stronger, and even more appropriate than those of a com¬ mon professional brotherhood. Separated as each man was from his ahna mater^ bound by no tie which could claim his strict allegi-
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