Medical reform a social question, comprehensively studied with the light of philosophy, history, and common sense : two letters to the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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    provide, in the largest measure, for the public want. Sections, and such are professions, a fortiori corporate bodies, belong to the public, not the public to corporations and professions. But the Medical corporations, the supporters of Mr. Headlam’s Bill, have gratuitously assumed that the health of the public is their appanage, and that to them belongs its administration de jure, and de facto. It is because such assumption is unwarrantable that I oppose the Medical corpo- rations—the supporters of Mr. Headlam’s Bill. It is not true, as an absolute proposition, that union is better than division, unanimity than difference. Englishmen, above all men, must oppose such errors, unless they are prepared to admit, without question, that the one voice of the Vatican, is, from the simple fact of its being one, a greater evidence of truth, than the independant religious belief of this great people,—unless they are prepared to admit that the President of the French Chamber is a more real embodiment of the sacred principles of freedom, than the Speaker of the Commons of England j—unless they are prepared to affirm, what they never will affirm, that under the sentence of the second of December, which silenced eloquence in Berryer, history in Thiers, social science in Guizot, France is more happy and prosperous than England under the Magna Charta Libertatum.