The touchstone of medical reform; in three letters, addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, bart / [Joseph Henry Green].

  • Joseph Henry Green
Date:
1841
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Credit: The touchstone of medical reform; in three letters, addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, bart / [Joseph Henry Green]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dues ;—and lastly, if checks were established upon un¬ professional conduct, and a watchful jealousy created of professional honor. And surely no more favorable opportunity,no more urgent occasion, of improving the condition of the medical profession can offer itself than the present, when the ranks of the profession are be¬ coming yearly augmented, and are in danger of being so overcrowded, that not only individual skill must be held in low estimation, in proportion to the numbers, but that a temptation, which too many will interpret as a justifying necessity, is offered for laying traps for the public favor by those low arts and disgraceful tricks of rivalry, which, if unchecked, must inevit¬ ably, sooner or later, bring the profession itself into disesteem and disgrace. And now, Sir, I have only in conclusion to express my hope and trust that, in leaving the honor of my profession in the hands of the Legislature, the good¬ ness of the cause will procure for it a majority of defenders, who, like yourself, are the champions and guardians of those national interests, which form the moral links that, binding the present with the past, and connecting it with the future, reconcile the hope of progression with the conditions of permanency. I have the honor to be, Sir, Yours most respectfully, JOSEPH HENRY GREEN.
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