Suggestions respecting the intended plan of medical reform, respectfully offered to the legislature and the profession / by Joseph Henry Green.

  • Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.
Date:
1834
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    3$ and for securing its interests in connexion with the welfare of the community. 4. As an administrative department of the Government of the country, in regulating all matters relating to the public health. It is plain, that a governing body so formed as ade- quately to execute these important functions, must comprise a sufficient number of the men most distin- guished in the Profession for their talents and attain- ments, and whose character would be a pledge of their fulfilling the important trust confided to them. The first question then, with regard to the constitu- of this body, will be the selection of the component members. Now colleges, societies, or institutes, for the protec- tion and promotion of science or the fine arts, are one class of incorporations; the guilds, committees, com- panies, &c., of political, municipal, or commercial life, are altogether of a different kind. To infer, therefore, that forms, practices, or regulations, which have been found expedient or necessary in the latter, must therefore be beneficially applied to the former, is, to say the least, a hasty presumption. On a fit- ting occasion, it might well repay the time of a thinking man to draw out the true character of this diversity of kind, and to place it in all the lights of which the subject is susceptible; but, for our pre- sent purpose, it will be sufficient to fix the attention on one essential and most characteristic point of dif-