Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison].

  • Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838
Date:
1806
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Credit: Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 3G ). It ought to be stated, in justice to the origi- nal promoters, that only a few of them can expect to derive much pecuniary advantage, from any changes, or improvements, in the practice of physic. They consist chiefly of practitioners, who, having been several years established, in their respective circuits, have arrived at their full measure of professional con- fidence, and advancement. Nor can it be sup- posed imputable to vanity, if such persons claim some acquaintance, with the corruptions in me- dicine, or suggest, what they think proper means, for removing them. Whether the whole, or any part, of the pro- posed scheme, is fit to become the ground- work of a medical reform, must be left to the opinion of others; and, to ascertain that opi- nion, it is now previously submitted, by its au- thors, to the candid examination of their bre- thren in general. Whatever may be their de- termination, it is presumed, that a due consi- deration of the various facts, which have been I brought into view, in the foregoing resolutions, cannot fail to impress every reader, with the great importance of the subject under consi- deration, and to excite the utmost solicitude, fo7' a temperate and complete reform, in the exercise of a profession, which, itnder the guar^