An address to the members of the Royal College of Surgeons of London: on the injurious conduct and defective state of that corporation; with reference to professional rights, medical science, and the public health / [John Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829
Date:
1825
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Credit: An address to the members of the Royal College of Surgeons of London: on the injurious conduct and defective state of that corporation; with reference to professional rights, medical science, and the public health / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ambassador, Sir Charles Stuart, and begged his interference with the French Authorities, in order that a place for dissection might be assigned to his countrymen. This step indeed was indispensable, as the French police does not permit the existence of private dissecting Theatres. There are two public Amphitheatres in Paris, namely, that of the School of Medicine, and that of La Pitie. The first of these establishments is under the sunerin- JL tendance of the Faculty of Medicine, and being devoted to a certain class of French students, or¬ dinary students, and especially strangers, find great difficulty in being allowed to dissect there. But La Pitie is a public institution, placed under the control of the Conseil General des Hopitaux. It consists of three great dissecting rooms open to all, and some small cabinets annually let to such as wish to dissect in private. From the annoyances consequent on dissecting in the public apartments, the English students were in the habit of hiring the cabinets from the Prosecteurs, who in conse¬ quence provided them with subjects. This much having been premised, it may he added, that Sir Charles Stuart declined interfering unless authorized to do so by Mr. Canning, the Right Honourable Secretary of State for the Fo¬ reign Department, Mr. Bennett accordingly ap¬ plied to Mr. Canning in September, 1824, and stated how important it was, in a national point of view, that English Medical men should be pro-