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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    advocates, who now plead support for his Bill because it is not Scotch. But what philosophy is this ? Headlamites where is your history— where your common sense ? Have you no respect for the dead that are immortal—no re- verence for the sentence of contemporary justice ? It would be beneath me, and that because beneath the high merits of the cause I plead, to attempt to disprove the charge of partizanship against Lord Elcho. I admit—how many ad- missions have I made for the sake of argument in the futile attempt at defence of the Medical oligarchies—I admit that Lord Elcho's Bill is Scotch. What then ? Did William and John Hunter come from Kamschatka ? Is Brougham of the land, even though he be of the family, of Pericles ? Spirit of Liston, wert thou embodied in Pall Mall? James Syme, William Sharpey, James Clarke, and Andrew Smith, what are you? Donner Wetter^ they are all Scotch 1 Yes, Modern Athens has been the cradle of our greatest intellects, the London world is in most instances but the battle-field for mastery. When the old Universities of England had barred their gates after the fashion of mediaeval intoler- ance, where did the great spirits breathe and wax in strength, to bless the land with the glowing radiance of their light? What would the gold of England have been without the genius, the heart, of her two sisters? Enough, I 1