Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen].

  • John Allen
Date:
1833
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Credit: Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    originally. There are Lawyers who resist every innovation in the administration of justice, that disturbs the ancient abuses they have been bred up to venerate, and exert all the astuteness of their profession to defeat every scheme of im- provement that tends to lessen the expense, or to shorten the forms and get rid of the useless tech- nicalities of established practice. Universities contend with an odious, narrow, and illiberal per- tinacity for the preservation of the exclusive pri- vileges they have been vested with, though unable or unwilling to emyloy them for any useful pur- pose. The medical faculty are not more exempt than others from this infirmity. Some members of the profession appear to consider the sick as their exclusive property, and to regard irregular practitioners as so many poachers or interlopers ontheirmanor. Others maintain, at the expense of their brethren, invidious privileges and dis- tinctions useless to the public and of little benefit to themselves, though galling to those who are excluded from them. Against this spirit of mo- nopoly it is the purpose of the following pages to contend. ‘The suggestions of the Author may be founded on a mistaken or imperfect view of the subject; but, whatever be their faults, they are dictated by no desire to uphold the interests of the medical profession against the public, or to give to any one class of medical men an advantage over the others that isnot manifestly conducive to the
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