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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    hetween men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, \h tncryy, invincible delvrminiitiov,—a ))urpose once fixed, and then, death or victory. 'J hat quality will do anything that ciin be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.—Extract of a Letter from Sir T. Foirell Buxton. Men ought always to pray and not to faint.—St. Luke, 18, i. Mihi res non me rebus subjungere conor.—Horatii Flacci. Whatever we have said has been for the ultimate honour and security of medicine ; and if, in discussing our subject independently, some hard sayings have been inflicted, the axiom flint true mefitcal rtform can only be bnsed on mer/ieal scen'ific reform, stands out the more boldly for the freedom with which it is proclaimed. While some may laugh, and some condemn, and some wince at our plain-spoken arguments, there are, as we know, amongst those who understand medicine and her position in current history best, those who will sympathise with us most; for there are no men who detect the imperfections of medicine so keenly as those who know it scientifically, and who grasp its great truth in the firmest embrace.—The Sanitary Review and Journal of Public Health, March, 1857.