Medical reform a social question, comprehensively studied with the light of philosophy, history, and common sense : two letters to the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston ... / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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    PEELLIINARY CONSIDERATIONS IN OPPOSITION TO MR. HEADLAM'S MEDICAL REFORM BILL. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, K.G., G.C.B., f-IRST LORD OF THE TREASTIRT, My Lord,—I shall not otherwise apologize for addressing yoii on the subject of Medical Reform, than on the basis of the question's importance, and of a firm conviction that it is inadvisable for the honor of science and the public good, that Mr. Headlam's Bill pass into law. It has been stated by one of the most powerful Corporations in favor of Mr. Headlam's Bill, That the object of Medical legislation can be no other than that of securing a well-qualified Medi- cal profession, and of providing a registration, by which the qualifications of Medical practi- tioners shall be certified and published. I submit, with deference, as a less objectionable mode of stating the question at issue, that the object of Medical legislation is to promote, in the largest