Social science and actual life : an historical narrative of a conflict between private interests and public duty, during the Social Science Conference, addressed to Lord Brougham / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Social science and actual life : an historical narrative of a conflict between private interests and public duty, during the Social Science Conference, addressed to Lord Brougham / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee. 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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    From Sir Philip Ceampton, Bakt , Surgeon to Steven's Hos- pital, Dublin, Professor of Clinical Surgery, Member of the Senate of the University of London, and Queen's University, Ireland; F.R.S., M.R.I.A., Surgeon-General to the Forces, and Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland. Dublin, August 15tli, 1857. Dear Sik,—I feel honored by your request that I should give such expression of my opinion of your qualifications for the office of surgeon to a hospital, as I may be led to entertain by the perusal of the memoirs which you have forwarded to my address. I have carefully perused these memoirs, and entirely concur in the opinion so strongly expressed by the highest surgical authorities in Europe, that together with your public services they afford ample proof of your being eminently qualified to discharge the duties of a hospital surgeon. I have the honor to be. Sir, your faithful servant, Philip Ceampton. J, S. Gamgee, Esq. From E. A. Paekes, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physi- cians, Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College, London, Examiner in Medicine to the East India Board. 13, Harley Street, August 13th, 1857. I have had the pleasure of knowing Mr. Gamgee for several years. He is a gentleman of great energy, remarkable perseverance, and untiring industry. He is an author of repute on several surgical subjects, and I am only expressing the general opinion when I say that his professional knowledge indicates that his career will be a very distinguished one. I consider Mr. Gamgee extremely well adapted for the post for which I understand he is now a candidate, and I believe he will be found to be not only a first-rate surgeon but an able and sound teacher. Mr. Gamgee has already held some prominent public appointments. E. A. Paekes. From Wm. Roberts, M D.Lond , Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary and Lunatic Hospital, Lecturer on Physiology at the Manchester School of Medicine. Having been a fellow-student of Mr. Gamgee, and on terms of intimacy with him for several years, I can speak with confidence of his character and of his attainments. He has always exhibited an unequalled zeal and diligence in the pursuit of knowledge; and the enterprise and originality he has displayed in the study of surgery, and its practice subsequently^