The treatment of the late Sir Robert Peel.

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[1850]
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Credit: The treatment of the late Sir Robert Peel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 past ornaments of our profession, who have not graduated at Oxford or Cambridge. The names of most of those who were in general practice are in italics : Akenside, Abercrombie, Annesly, Abernethy, Armstrong, Bateman, Baron, B. Bell, J. Bell, C. Bell, Black, J. Burns, A. Burns, Bab- bington, Bree, Blane, Birkbeck, Cullen, Clieyhe, Cheselden, Cruik- shank, Currie, A. Cooper, S. Cooper, Clarke, Cross, Carmichael, Combe, Denman, Thos. Da,vis, D. Davis, Duncan, Dahymple, Fo- thergill, Fordyce, Fowler, Fyfe, Farre, Gooch, Good, Gregory, Hux- ham, J. Hunter, W. Hunter, Hey, Hamilton, Hewson, Henry, Hooper, Haighton, Hope, Jenner, James, Jas. Johnson, Jackson, Jones, Loivder, Lettsom, Liston, Mead, the Monroes, Marcet, Male, Martin, Martineau, Pringle, Pitcairn, Percival, Parry, Pemberton, Pott, Prout, Plumbe, Priestly, Rigby, Ring, Rutherford, Reid, A. T. Thompson, Wells, Wiseman, Withering, Willan, Walker, Ware, Wishart, Woodville, Young. We next turn to some now living, whose labours in the field of me¬ dical science have tended to benefit their fellow creatures. The reader will perceive that the list might have been greatly extended, but the subjoined names will suffice to illustrate our argument. Those who are, or have been general practitioners are in italics : Arnott, Addison, Allison, Ashwell, Bright, Billing, Bird, Bennett, Ballingall, Brodie, Brande, Baron, Clutterbuck, Chowne, Sir C. Clarke, Sir J. Clarke, Copland, Christison, Corrigan, Crompton, Churchill, Craigie, Carswell, Conolly, Cowan, Ceeley, Fergusson, Forbes, Garrod, Grant, Goodsir, Gregory, Guthrie, Hall, Hodgkin, Hassall, Hudson, Herapath, Lee, Locock, Lever, Letlieby, Mantell, Nunnerly, Owen, Pereira, Quain, Quecket, Simpson, Stokes, Sliarpey, Syme, A. Taylor, J. Taylor, Travers, Tweedie, Teale, Winslow, Williams, Walsh, Wright. It must be observed, too, that the Oxford and Cambridge Gradu¬ ates have had great advantages ; they have been selected invariably as censors at the College of Physicians, although many of them have been woefully deficient in “ practical experience.” They have been chosen fellows over the heads of men of high repute, and they have received Hospital appointments in consequence of their connexion with these Universities. But we conclude with the words of a quaint writer of the seventeenth century.—“ ’T is true, indeed, that you in particular, of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, do naturally, and in the most friendly manner agree, much rather to choose and employ 3-our own fellow students and associates, your familiar chums and bottle-companions of either place, than any else, without over- scrupulously examining into the matter, of more or less knowledge (a custom well known in our kingdom).” THE TREATMENT OF THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL. The various and conflicting opinions respecting the treatment pur¬ sued in the case of this eminent statesman induce us to say a few words respecting it. We gather the following particulars from the account sent to all the journals, and we suppose, if not drawn up by