Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott.

  • Boott, Francis, 1792-1863.
Date:
1833-1834
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Credit: Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong : To which is added an inquiry into the facts connected with those forms of fever attributed to malaria or marsh effluvium / By Francis Boott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kindness, but at the same time regretted he could not avail himself of it, as their laws required that their physician should be a Fellow or Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and that he was not a member of that body. On their inquiring the cause, he told them that he had offered himself for examination as a Licentiate, and been rejected,— that no cause had been expressly assigned, but that the sufficient one undoubtedly was, the opinion of the Board of Examiners of his incompetency to practise his profession. On his announcing this fact, he was desired to withdraw, and the gentle- man above alluded to, in his absence, spoke of the estimation in which he had been held in the North of England, of the high reputation which he had obtained from his writings, and it was proposed that the Bye Law, which made it necessary for their Physician to be a member of the College should be immediately suspended. This was as- sented to, and Dr. Armstrong entered at once upon the duties of the important office thus honourably conferred upon him. He was now encouraged to indulge in favourable views of his future prospects. His family had joined him from the country, and he removed to a house in Southampton Row. The celebrity of his writings had introduced him into some practice among a few members of the profession who had been impressed through them with a confidence in his talents ; and the reputation he had acquired on the subject of Fever, together with his early ap- pointment to the Hospital of St. Pancras, soon led him to be considered as the highest authority