A vindication of the University of Edinburgh (as a School of Medicine,) from the aspersions of "a member of the University of Oxford". With remarks on medical reform and an appendix ... / by Lawson Whalley.

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1822
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Credit: A vindication of the University of Edinburgh (as a School of Medicine,) from the aspersions of "a member of the University of Oxford". With remarks on medical reform and an appendix ... / by Lawson Whalley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i masters of ancient genius, which makes me su'« pect that the Political Reformer has only changed his garb, that he has descended from “ palaces and courts, to colleges and academies, only to play a surer game.” Now, as I have a right to my suspicions, as well as himself, I suspect, that, as there is no connection between Politics and Medicine, the Political Reformer who steps so much out of his way, as to engage in, or foment disputes among Medical Men, will find, to his cost, that his time has been mis-spent, and that he will only receive his trouble for his pains. As to any “ contempt of the great masters of ancient ge- “ nius,” as far as medicine is concerned, I confess I know of none such, and I believe I shall be fully borne out in asserting, that the writings of the great Father of Physic, as well as the other ansient Physicians, obtain at this day, quite as much attention as they deserve; especially, as very greht portions of them, can now only be perused as matter of curiosity. lie further says, ,c I think myself justified in this remark, by the in- solent tone of the medical reformers, as they “ styled themselves, bv the clamorous audacity of fftlieir partisans, and by the levelling system they openly promulgated, before the Apothecary*