A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson].

  • Dickson, Stephen
Date:
1795
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Credit: A letter from Dr. Dickson to his medical brethren, relative to the School of Physic in this kingdom / [Stephen Dickson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1262]. 14s. 2d. per annum, the falary of each would now have been 21 ol. a year, or thereabouts. Next, the flatement alferts, “ That on the 23d of May, 1791, a claim of a greater falary than <£ iool. per annum was for thefirft time made by £< fome of the king’s profelfors.” The direct contrary of this alfertion appears from the minutes of the college of phyficians of June 1787 and of April 1788 j from the query put to two council of eminence and in flation at the bar, by the college, on the latter of thofe dates, viz. What falary is each of the king’s profelfors en- “ titled to during'the life of Do&or Quin ?” and from the following acknowledgment of the col- lege in their anfwer to the profelfors’ bill : “ De- “ fendants believe that fometime in 1788 fome claim to a rateable diflribution of the before- “ mentioned two-thirds of faid eftate was made “ by the tben profelfors, and that the faid profef- “ fors did upon a right unto fame during the “ life of faid Henry Quin, inltead of the annual “ fumof iool. only.” Further, the flatement alferts, <c that an aft “ Was Paffed in th^ thirty-firft year of his prefent „ f°r ihe Purp°fe of defeating that clam which had been for the firft time mtde on the 23d of May, 1791.” The veracity of this alfertion may be fuffi.’ cient y exhibited by the following fadt. On the