A letter addressed to the Faculty of Physic in London, on the illegal and unwholesome bye-laws of the College of Physicians of London, establishing a monopoly in favour of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge / by Henry Robertson.

Date:: 1827

Credit: A letter addressed to the Faculty of Physic in London, on the illegal and unwholesome bye-laws of the College of Physicians of London, establishing a monopoly in favour of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge / by Henry Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$since its foundation, with the two Univer- sities superadded. When the London College arrogates superiority of attainment above other pro- fessional men, it is evident, by the following quotation, they have profited but little from their previous and boasted classical education. To pcev yap aka^wv epcot ye Bo /cel ovopca, K£>f$aL enrl rocs 'rrpocnroLavpLevoLs kcu 7fkov- cnorepois elvat, r\ elcn /cal avBet orepots, kcu 7roi7]creiv a per] LKavot elcn vma^vovpcevoLs,—kcu Tavra cpavepols ycyvopcevoLs on rov \a/3eiv eveKa kcu KepSavai TroLovaiv*—Xenoph. Cyropced. lib. ii. The constitution of the Scots Univer- sities is widely different from those of * The term “ Braggart” seems to me to apply to those who pretend to superior endowments from fortune and na- ture, and put forward pretensions to which they are unequal: and particularly when these pretensions are urged with a view to individual gain.—Xenoph. Cyropced. lib. ii.$