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gentlemen would do well to remember, that they hare ceased to be boys ; and, Unther, that they have entered a profession which To the Editor of THE LANCET. boasts of its good discipline, honourable k SiR,—Though far from wishing to throwbehaviour, and liberal manners. Their prea veil over the vices of my countrymen, Isent s conduce intimates that they have forgotam still anxious the public slic-uld be aware,t these tllinas, and they seem blindly unthat James Johnstone, editor of the lateaware, that the part they are now daily actQuarterly Journal, although an "Aberdeening ia arbitrary, ungentlemanly, and altois not a but a child SCOTCH DUBS NOT ALL SCOTCH MEN.
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of ,gether Scotchman, unwarrantable. ; the Emerald isle. I make this protest for myself and fellowHowever infamous in many respects the pupils, and it may not be amiss to assert, dub system may be, and however fortunate that no lecturer has the slightest knowledge it be that THE LANCET is employed for its of what I now do. amendment, it is but fair, Mr. Editor, that A BARTHOLOMEW PUPIL. you give a true account of the extraction Feb. 25th, 1829. and education of the worthy members of this Dub Association. Now James Johnson is a native of Carrickfergus ; he has all the characteristic features of the Hibernian BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—THE CERTIFICATE TRADE. race. Any of your readeis who may wish to examine his phrenological development a considerable time the demonstraand till) pupils who are regular in may find an opportunity any evening in the their attendance, have been very much disshop of Burgess and Hill, where they find him encircled by innumerable unsold I turbed and annoyed, by stragglers entering copies of tiie " bundles of trash," and of the theatre of this hospital, during the dehis dyspeptic volumes. monstrations, at intervals of every few SAWNEY. minutes, and sometimes until within even lBIarch 6th, 1829. of the hour of breaking up. five minutes ot Mr. Skey, on Wednesday morning, felt it his duty publicly to notice this nuisance. " DELINQUENCIES OF PUPILS. He believed, that at most, if not at all, the scliools throughout London, as well as this, To the Editor of THE LANCET. there were such thines as certificates, and Sm,---As I look upon you to be censor- that those things were considered by a great general to the profession, and as you have many, as merely things of form,—matters of particularly exerted yourself for the welfare course. He was sorry to add, that hitherto the of medical students, I do not think it ne-jurmhad ploved victorious. Many gentlemen cessary to make any apology for introduc- had come to him for certificates who he ing the following subject to your notice. knew perfectly well had very rarely, if ever, Your strictures on public characters, and, heard a demonstration. By the irrebular at. amongst the rest, on public teachers, have tendance too of those who were a little more been by no means deficient, either in fre- in the habit of making their appeaia.nce, not queucy or severity ; and, I trust, that you only was he very inconveniently interrupted, will not hesitate to exercise the same author- so as, at one time, not to havehad the opporrity and salutary castigation, towards pupils, tunity of demonstrating for a full hour, but when you are made acquainted with their such gentlemen &s were anxious to acquire delinquencies. Not a few evils have sprung a knowlege of their profession, and were to the hour, were insufferably anup, and are fostered with wanton inconsi-’ derateness among them ; but the one which noyed. Under these circumstances, howit is now my object to place before your ever painful it was to him to complain, he judicial attention, is the practice of iater- begged the class to take notice that certiurupting out- lecturers in the midst of their du- cates of attendance should not, as far as reties. This they regularly do without any garded himself in future, be matters of ’form of course,’ and that the late system of regard to good feeling, decorum, or selfinterest. They inflict by it a direct injuryirregularity should not be permitted to proon the lecturer, their fellow-students, and ceed, if even, to put a stop to it, recourse tol)e had of shutting the doors at a themselves. There needs no argument to period every morning." provethis. Even those who, with childish These observations might fall very seamischief, indulge in the habit to which 1 allude., must, if they do not find it too much sonably from the lips of the anatomical tiouble to ieflect at all, immediately be con- lecturer as well as from Mr. Skey ; and as as punctuality to tile hour is concerned, It would, perhaps, vinced of its truth. not adopt the college rule of shutting evince too much credulity to suppose they would acknowledge their conviction. Those the doors at the moment the clock strikes?
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gentlemen would do well to remember, that they hare ceased to be boys ; and, Unther, that they have entered a profession which To the Editor of THE LANCET. boasts of its good discipline, honourable k SiR,—Though far from wishing to throwbehaviour, and liberal manners. Their prea veil over the vices of my countrymen, Isent s conduce intimates that they have forgotam still anxious the public slic-uld be aware,t these tllinas, and they seem blindly unthat James Johnstone, editor of the lateaware, that the part they are now daily actQuarterly Journal, although an "Aberdeening ia arbitrary, ungentlemanly, and altois not a but a child SCOTCH DUBS NOT ALL SCOTCH MEN.
ten .
of ,gether Scotchman, unwarrantable. ; the Emerald isle. I make this protest for myself and fellowHowever infamous in many respects the pupils, and it may not be amiss to assert, dub system may be, and however fortunate that no lecturer has the slightest knowledge it be that THE LANCET is employed for its of what I now do. amendment, it is but fair, Mr. Editor, that A BARTHOLOMEW PUPIL. you give a true account of the extraction Feb. 25th, 1829. and education of the worthy members of this Dub Association. Now James Johnson is a native of Carrickfergus ; he has all the characteristic features of the Hibernian BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—THE CERTIFICATE TRADE. race. Any of your readeis who may wish to examine his phrenological development a considerable time the demonstraand till) pupils who are regular in may find an opportunity any evening in the their attendance, have been very much disshop of Burgess and Hill, where they find him encircled by innumerable unsold I turbed and annoyed, by stragglers entering copies of tiie " bundles of trash," and of the theatre of this hospital, during the dehis dyspeptic volumes. monstrations, at intervals of every few SAWNEY. minutes, and sometimes until within even lBIarch 6th, 1829. of the hour of breaking up. five minutes ot Mr. Skey, on Wednesday morning, felt it his duty publicly to notice this nuisance. " DELINQUENCIES OF PUPILS. He believed, that at most, if not at all, the scliools throughout London, as well as this, To the Editor of THE LANCET. there were such thines as certificates, and Sm,---As I look upon you to be censor- that those things were considered by a great general to the profession, and as you have many, as merely things of form,—matters of particularly exerted yourself for the welfare course. He was sorry to add, that hitherto the of medical students, I do not think it ne-jurmhad ploved victorious. Many gentlemen cessary to make any apology for introduc- had come to him for certificates who he ing the following subject to your notice. knew perfectly well had very rarely, if ever, Your strictures on public characters, and, heard a demonstration. By the irrebular at. amongst the rest, on public teachers, have tendance too of those who were a little more been by no means deficient, either in fre- in the habit of making their appeaia.nce, not queucy or severity ; and, I trust, that you only was he very inconveniently interrupted, will not hesitate to exercise the same author- so as, at one time, not to havehad the opporrity and salutary castigation, towards pupils, tunity of demonstrating for a full hour, but when you are made acquainted with their such gentlemen &s were anxious to acquire delinquencies. Not a few evils have sprung a knowlege of their profession, and were to the hour, were insufferably anup, and are fostered with wanton inconsi-’ derateness among them ; but the one which noyed. Under these circumstances, howit is now my object to place before your ever painful it was to him to complain, he judicial attention, is the practice of iater- begged the class to take notice that certiurupting out- lecturers in the midst of their du- cates of attendance should not, as far as reties. This they regularly do without any garded himself in future, be matters of ’form of course,’ and that the late system of regard to good feeling, decorum, or selfinterest. They inflict by it a direct injuryirregularity should not be permitted to proon the lecturer, their fellow-students, and ceed, if even, to put a stop to it, recourse tol)e had of shutting the doors at a themselves. There needs no argument to period every morning." provethis. Even those who, with childish These observations might fall very seamischief, indulge in the habit to which 1 allude., must, if they do not find it too much sonably from the lips of the anatomical tiouble to ieflect at all, immediately be con- lecturer as well as from Mr. Skey ; and as as punctuality to tile hour is concerned, It would, perhaps, vinced of its truth. not adopt the college rule of shutting evince too much credulity to suppose they would acknowledge their conviction. Those the doors at the moment the clock strikes?
dub,"
FOR
willBtor,
five
punctual
and ) were given
far why
past