A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual Members of the Royal College of Surgeons by a physician, in a late Address.

Date:
1825
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Credit: A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual Members of the Royal College of Surgeons by a physician, in a late Address. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ]() very advertisements which annually appear in the month of September, of Lectures to be given as usual, but which are never completed; of Attendance on Hospitals and Infirmaries, which have no existence,, are sufficient proofs of the necessity of the College, as the consti- tuted head of the profession, being active to protect the interests of the unfriended student, who arrives in town ignorant of the tricks to which he may be exposed. A young man has no suspicion that many of the alluring Tables of Contents, called Prospectuses, which he sees in the medical booksellers' shops, are deceptions, or, at most, merely noting the good designs of the writers, which are, however, seldom fulfilled. When it is considered that there are indivi- duals who are by no means solicitous to. advise their apprentices and dependents to attend the lectures of the masters in their profession;—when it is recollected that the convenience of situation will too often influence them to send their young men to the most convenient place, without regard to its characterand if they suppose that the youths entrusted to their charge will receive from a grinder such a knowledge of the common details of anatomy as will enable them to pass certain examinations, care little whether they ever have any opportunity of learn- ing the principles of their professionI say, if
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