A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual members of the Royal College of Surgeons / by a physician [John Armstrong], in a late Address.

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1825
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Credit: A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual members of the Royal College of Surgeons / by a physician [John Armstrong], in a late Address. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    admitted the certificates of men who are no better than themselves. But this a piece of injustice on the part of the College which the demonstrators are more entitled to complain of, for their certificates are not admitted, while those of men who are much their juniors in the profession, and who, if any judgement can be formed from report, are inferior to them in talent, are received. Why do not these gentlemen who consider themselves aggrieved, if they have such superior talents for teaching, set themselves fairly to the labour, and show themselves to be really clever men, instead of employing a radical and quack¬ ing doctor to puff them off? If they prove them¬ selves worthy, they may be assured that the College will grant them all the advantages they can desire. But unless they do so, their lectures will never be sanctioned as being sufficient, for the College is conscious that it has already done much to hurt the respectability of the profession by having granted all the privileges which the seniors in the profession possess to young men who have got a few of the inferior class of students to come to them* by holding out the inducement of small fees and the promise of grinding, or, as the new term says, giving them catachetical examinations to fit them for passing the College. It was high time that a stop should be put to this. /
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