Remarks on an address to the members of the Corporation of Surgeons, respecting the proceedings of the Court of Assistants.

  • John Ring
Date:
1798
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks on an address to the members of the Corporation of Surgeons, respecting the proceedings of the Court of Assistants. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I ( 16 ) He adds, To the alteration of a cuftom fo « u much to your advantage, no folid objection u can be made. You have increafed your own ts fees; you have added others; and you have “ raifed the emoluments and gratuities of your ss fervants, in points not quite clear, and rather iX problematical. te How many hundred pounds (I am inclined tf< to think 1500/. or 2000/.) would have been i€ faved by thefe means ? &c. “ You meet,” fays Mr. G. <c at the Hall, you tc adjourn to the tavern, you return to the Hall u again ; and all this when you have a houfe of lt your own, inhabited at a great expenfe to you, *l and where, if you have not already all the con- ** veniencies you want, you may at any time be u furniftied with them. “ Vi gentlemen, you make no better ufe of your ** Hall than you have already done, you had better fell it, and apply the money for the good of the Company il in fome other way. Your Hall has cofl you a ,s fum, during the laft four years, very little lefs “ than 1200I. and the bills for repairs, inde- ts pendently of the taxes and ground-rent, have “ amounted to upwards of 250/. within the laft \ After
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