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 President and Fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon.

Date:: [cbetween 1800 and 1899?]

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 President and Fellows of the College of Physicians of London / by Machaon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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of study, and an equally rigid and impartial examination. These degrees, conferred with so much care, and to be attended with as little expence to the candidates as pos- sible, should also be valid in the Army and Navy, as well as throughout the whole of the British Dominions. Such a plan would soon put an end to corporate cor- ruption in Medical and Surgical affairs in Great Britain and Ireland. The preceding propositions will, no doubt, be regarded by the present head of the College of Physicians, as an attempt to spread darkness, disgrace, and vandalism over that part of the healing art, at the head of which he is placed.* There can be no doubt, however, that they will be regarded with a different eye by the present Lord Chancellor and his colleagues, whose example and devotion to the interests of their country we would re- * We entertain great respect for Sir H—y H—1—d, as a skilful Physician and a Gentlemen, but, unfortunately, the in- stant he enters on the merits of Oxford or Cambridge, as compared with other Universities of the United Kingdom, he assuredly gambols. For who did ever play his gambols, With such insufferable rambles? HUDIBRAS.

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