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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    of the chief, if not the chief, supporters of Mr. Headlain's Bill. What is such support ? Why should not Paget and Bowman, Fergusson and Simon, long since have replaced those of the College Councillors who are even richer than their fellows in reminiscences of the close of the last century, most in arrear of the knowledge of the day? Because the Council of the College of Surgeons has never deemed it to its interest to understand the saying of the immortal Liston, that, in surgery at least, years are not necessarily the measure of experience; they have never perused that eloquent passage of history which records the leading of the Commons of England by William Pitt at twenty-six years of age, l^o^ the ancients of the College of Surgeons have grown in despotism with age, irresponsibility, and opulence; they have to the utmost excluded vigour and learning from their councils, and therefore their creature, Mr. Headlam's Bill, does not merit the approval of the British Legislature. In a specious document, just published, entitled The Case of the Council of the College of Sur- geons, that body claim consideration for the material works with which they have embellished their institution, for the means they have ex- pended in thereby adding to the monuments of the nation. But those funds have been in great measure supplied by votes of Parliament, for l^he express object to which they have been