Medical education and medical interestsFannin, 1868 - 164 pages |
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Page 121 - No ordinary misfortune, no ordinary misgovernment, will do so much to make a nation wretched, as the constant progress of physical knowledge and the constant effort of every man to better himself will do to make a nation prosperous.
Page 129 - We cannot, therefore, but deeply regret that an old trade monopoly should not only appertain to, but be actively maintained by, one of the corporations belonging to the medical profession, and whose licences are now accepted by the Army, Navy, and Poor Law Boards, as constituting a sufficient title to practise medicine. There has been a struggle regarding the admission of the corporation referred to into the practising ranks of the profession ; that struggle is now past, and we have therefore nothing...
Page 128 - ... not in what light do we look upon ourselves or upon each other, but, in what light are we looked upon by the external world. It is admittedly desirable that medical practitioners, the members of a learned and liberal profession, should be gentlemen, that is to say, that they should be held as the equals of gentlemen in education and position, as the equals of the members of the other learned professions.
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Page 128 - ... of our profession in the same light. Which portion then ? and why not all of our members ? That portion, we reply, which regards our profession as a profession strictly, and not as a compound of a profession...
Page 128 - It is of no avail to say that if a man is within the ranks of the profession he thereby becomes a gentleman ; for the question...