Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh.

Date:
1819
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Credit: Answer to a pamphlet entitled The medical school of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fees* the hundreds who* were unhouselled * - . ft' * < (as he is pleased to term it) for the accom¬ modation of the Parliament Square, the Police Office*, the New Hoad, &c., and yet no insurrection happened. Does our pamphleteer think that these public im¬ provements were done to make a mob ? I trust no such intention was ever enter- 4 * tained by our rulers y- and I am sure no¬ thing but the public weal was intended. And even then, these were not done till the bodies, and even the bones, were all mouldered to their mother earth. Besides* it was public improvements, which all the town seemed to concur in. As to the Cal- ton burying-ground, it was a pity to take that away, as they might have done with¬ out it: but it was done in that sort of way so as to hurt the feelings of the inhabitants as little as possible, and it was only removed then from one burying-ground to another; and as for the unhallowed or unconsecrated % i ^ ground, we are not quite so bigotted as our pamphleteer seems to be. We all know,