Remarks submitted to the medical professors of the universities of Scotland and Ireland, as well as to the licentiates : on the necessity of medical reform, as the consequence of the selfish conduct of the College of Surgeons, and the pfesident and fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon.

Date:: [1853?]

Credit: Remarks submitted to the medical professors of the universities of Scotland and Ireland, as well as to the licentiates : on the necessity of medical reform, as the consequence of the selfish conduct of the College of Surgeons, and the pfesident and fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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tion; so that the profession should be a chain ol links so respectable as to be resolvable into each other. The duties of humanity are greatly hampered and restrained by the professional pride, selfishness, and vanity, of the President and Fellows, as the Licenciates of the College of Physicians, are prohibited from practising Surgery, Midwifery, or compounding their own medicines; but in Edinburgh and over the whole of Scotland, it is sanctioned, to the great advantage of the community. This interdiction is a most rank and fetid job on the side of the President and Fellows of the College of Physicians, who have supported a system so beneficial to themselves, by the inducement it holds out to Apothecaries and Che- mists to employ them, but, at the same time, so detest- ably injurious to the cause of humanity.* To render the matter clear, the individual who has now the honour to ad- dress the Graduates of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin, is not altogether dependent on his professional exertions, which enables him, like many others, to be occasionally * Nothing disrespectful is here intended to Apothecaries, who, many of them, are too independent to allow themselves to be entrapped by such a bait. It is adduced to shew the motives in which the illiberal decree originated ; as those who made the law can repeal it, should it not be rendered beneficia to its framers.

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