Remarks on a recent effort to subvert the charter of the Royal College of Surgeons : with animadversions on the evil tendency of "The Lancet" : and observations respectfully addressed to general practitioners, on the best means of maintaining their privileges and repectability / by William Cooke.

  • Cooke, William, 1785-1873.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Remarks on a recent effort to subvert the charter of the Royal College of Surgeons : with animadversions on the evil tendency of "The Lancet" : and observations respectfully addressed to general practitioners, on the best means of maintaining their privileges and repectability / by William Cooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their conductors encountered in preparing the way. They gain neither feeling—nor taste— nor habit—nor constitution for scientific en- terprize. With the advancement of knowledge, libe- rality of sentiment is generally co-existent. Invidious distinctions become loathsome, and unnecessary restrictions are intolerable. It is here, in conjunction I apprehend with some idea that the Royal College of Surgeons can bestow on its Members a succedaneum for labour, that we may observe the commence- ment of discontent with the Regulations of that chartered and distinguished body.* Powerful as this country is in her energies, wise as she is in her councils, standing, in- deed, pre-eminent among the nations of the * The following- observations made by a Reviewer, on some of the hindrances in the cultivation and improvement of the useful and elegant arts, are not inappropriate, and the quota- tion will perhaps not be unacceptable. After alluding to some refinements in excellence, by which the difficulty of the means is concealed, he adds, and make that masterly facility which has been acquired by the methodical study of years, appear to be the random effusion of playful negligence, or the accidental felicity of a lucky moment: for ignorant and eager students, youths of more rapidity of conception than acute- ness or accuracy of observation, continually mistake them, and consequently pursue their studies in an inverted progress. They begin by effect without labour, and end by labour Avith- out eSect.-^Norihcote's Life of Sir Joshua Reijnolds. Ed. Rev. 1814.