Annals of medicine. No. 1, Sir James Graham's bill repudiated / by John Thomson.

  • Thomson, John, 1765-1846.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Annals of medicine. No. 1, Sir James Graham's bill repudiated / by John Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    spiracy a suspended Fellow ! Daniel in the lion’s den bears no analogy to tins. The lion in Beelzebub’s den, entrapped, t ured and poisoned by four false, degraded, fallen fiends n ght be wrought up mto a finer picture of the illustrious Dr Z^g°Vr1>n8rCt tLe Hal1 °f the *** College of liysicians, Edinburgh, now an object of disgust and abhor- rence, and, corresponding with its masters, in dilapidation and . o my deepest sorrow, I see that your proposed bill pro- thT\delUSi°nS “d atr°cities £ S* P-tJous in I!'' dTS T a BirminSham leviathan-fisher writes thus m he Lancet so far m confirmation of my opinion of the Royal o lege of Physicians, Edinburgh; but the Royal College^of centeT13118’ in cver>' respect, moral degradation ex¬ cepted, precisely similar. «« I determined” (quoth the Birming- “ “ UP° a httIe recreation in the fishing way. I thought Id have a throw at the leviathan College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and I baited my hook with the University * * * attae v no individuals, but a monstrous national evil and ab- T ev)1> the consequences of which are felt far beyond the hunts of the Scottish capital or the Scottish nation,-an evil Mb eh lias given title and ascendency to men mean enough to bo exalted by such means, and basin some cases enabled them to Head oi er the heads of their professional brethern, by gulling the “ ‘nsd “7’ Which °UrhiSh winded pofJsLn is too noble to oppose, too dignified to decry. of the F^n ? M ^ fadUat6S °f EdinburSh constitute the majority o Fellows of the College of Physicians, and as long as any ]c ‘ r “T 8 T all°Wed t0 pander the h'-noiirs of the Col -e (.) to their needy retainers, and upon German degrees, giving o hose worthless baubles a British name and a British sanction upnleFl ,COns‘der myself at liberty, in any way, to call down’ upon the Edinburgh College (?) the whole weight of honest i„- Fdint 'V , /, ^ Stm °f °pini0n that the University of . burfb W.0UW ,‘aVe consulted its own dignity far more by at- bv enL T niBg titlie-panGering College of Physicians, thes r;lml‘,° bl0‘ 0Ut th° last venaI medical corporation in gi oms, than by attacking a solitary individual, a British