A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual Members of the Royal College of Surgeons by a physician, in a late Address.

Date:
1825
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Credit: A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual Members of the Royal College of Surgeons by a physician, in a late Address. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    grasp, and rend, and wrench away the forms, and fooleries, and mummeries, by which physic has been cumbered and obscured. In another part of the same work, we find him stating, with unparalleled effrontery, these principles, &c. have not yet found their way into some long-established colleges and schools, where pride and prejudice, and dullness and darkness, exult in the mockery of an old char- ter, which is despised by all p'ure and indepen- dent minds. Such ribald stuff, in the way of lectures to young and uneducated men, must incline the members of the profession to say, that the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none but parrots. Such remarks, and such language, levelled, not at the College of Surgeons, but at another equally respected body, the College of Phy- sicians, excited me to make further inquiries, and then I discovered why this doctor should talk of the mockery of examinations. He was himself, it would appear, rejected when ex- amined before the College of Physicians; and, although to every person acquainted with the gentleman on whom the duty of examining him devolved, there can be no necessity for showing that the examination was conducted in a fair and honourable manner; yet to those