Reflections on the Surgeons' Bill: in answer to three pamphlets in defence of that Bill / [John Ring].

  • Ring, John, 1752-1821
Date:
1798
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Credit: Reflections on the Surgeons' Bill: in answer to three pamphlets in defence of that Bill / [John Ring]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nem: to prove the flagrant mifcondud&t of the petitioners for the bill in times paft ; to prove they were unfit to be trufted with new powers, becaufe they had abufed the old ; and to roufe the public indignation againtt, their atrocious attempts. The fecond and third letters. were written at fubfequent periods : to remove prejudices unjuftly excited; and to elucidate feveral points, which even then were not well uns derftood.. Zhen, as well as wow, our ops ponents {trained every nerve, to conciliate favour. by: falfe- pretences.; and. to gratify their ambition. by am overbearing influence. They. raifed. the mift of prejudice ; to pre- vent the Public from difcerning the true na- ture of the queftion, and. their own real in- tereft. in. the caufe.. In: fhort, they feemed, fearful, left they fhould leave any finifter manceuyre, or mean ftratagem, untried. What-