Remarks submitted to the medical professors of the universities of Scotland and Ireland, as well as to the licentiates : on the necessity of medical reform, as the consequence of the selfish conduct of the College of Surgeons, and the President and Fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon.

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[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Remarks submitted to the medical professors of the universities of Scotland and Ireland, as well as to the licentiates : on the necessity of medical reform, as the consequence of the selfish conduct of the College of Surgeons, and the President and Fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    we are now compelled to respect as the lover of his coun- try, its free institutions, and, consequently, as the friend of order, of justice, and of humanity. His Lordship and his colleagues, may be truly said to have done much to- wards restoring to health the affairs of Ruentis Imperii.* It appears that Lord Brougham was, sometime ago, present at a meeting of the College of Physicians, and we are told ^hat he jocosely expressed himself greatly delighted with the position of the entrance of the hall, which is almost due north, as, from that quarter, he intended to let in a * It is devoutly to be wished, that all corporate Medical, Surgical, and Hospital deceptions, so ably exposed in the Lancet, may be extinguished, as they are at once, not only a national disgrace, but if we longer submit to them, we shall be a dis- grace to our profession, and the age in which we live. The re- cords of history in their whole compass do not offer an example more pleasing than that of our own country at the present mo- ment. The existing Ministers have, with great wisdom, identified themselves with the interests of the nation and its industry, by boldly and skilfully throwing themselves into the breach, in order to constitutionally root out a direful systom of corruption and plunder of long standing ; and in the execution of these para- mount duties, and requiring so much skill, time and fair play must be given to our state Physicians, to whom the country is already so much their debtors, by the extinction of the rotten boroughs, which were so many political hells.