A letter from a medical gentleman in town, to his friend in the country : containing an authentic account of the difference between the Medical Society of Crane-court, and Dr. Whitehead, during the late canvass for a physician to the London-hospital : with a true copy of all the papers, both written and printed, which have passed between the contending parties.

Medical gentleman in town.

Date:: 1784

Credit: A letter from a medical gentleman in town, to his friend in the country : containing an authentic account of the difference between the Medical Society of Crane-court, and Dr. Whitehead, during the late canvass for a physician to the London-hospital : with a true copy of all the papers, both written and printed, which have passed between the contending parties. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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[ ] the grounds of their interKied motion, or have left them to purfue their intended meafures. Two days after, that is on the the 24th, they met again, when the whole party were together and one of them in the chair. They now determined not to accept of my letter of refignation. It was urged againft this, that they had no law to prevent it, and the conRant ufage of the fociety was againft them in this cafe. The reply, I am told, was, if we have no law to prevent his refignation, we will make one for the purpofe; he fhall not refign, wc will expel him. Immediately after this motion had palTed in a meeting of about eight members of the fociety, and before it was confirmed at a fubfequent meeting, the fame party were affiduous in whifpering among the Governors, that fomething was very bad in the condu6lofDr. Whitehead, and that the Medical Society had expelled him; though the whole was the tranfadion of a party, in the manner I have now defcribed. They founded the motion of expulfion on the reafons I alTigned for withdrawing myfelf, and expreffed in the letter of refignation; alledging that I bad falfely charged the fociety with being a cabal of parties. But this is a perfeft abufe of my words: I faid only that, fame members femcd difpofcdto make it

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