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DR. TURNER. MEDICAL AID TO THE SICK POOR IN THE UNIONS. THE Professor of Chemistry in University PETITIONS TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. College, breathed his last on Sunday, the 12th of February, 1837. The suddenness of this " To the Right Honourable and Honourable occurrence shed great gloom on the instituthe Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in On Monday morning the students tion. Parliament assembled,—the Petition of were made acquainted with the painful the President and Council of the BRITISH event by the closure of the class-rooms for MEDICAL ASSOCIATION : the day, and they were quickly excited by 11 Humbly sheweth,-That your Petition. a desire to express their respect for his chahaving taken into their most serious M. racter by following his remains to the grave; sideration the system at present adopted’" and at a meeting on Tuesday a resolution was the Poor Law Commissioners for atFoedi; to the sick poor, do higi,i passed, that a request should be forwarded to medical relief the family of the deceased for permission to disapprove of the same as unjust to tt, classes, injurious to the commnit attend in the funeral train. This was acced- poorer at large, and derogatory to the charartf, ed, and a committee accordingly made ar- and respectability of the medical professifi,, " Your Petitioners therefore humbly, 6u rangements for the procession. On Friday earnestly, pray that your Honour. was borne the from the house body night be pleased to make such it House will at Hampstead to the college, and at twelve into the alleged evils, and to enar’ quiries o’clock on Saturday the corpse was convey- such measures,as to your Honourable Rou’, ed to the new cemetry at Kensall Green,i may appear necessary :And your Pi Upwards of three hundred students fol- tioners will ever pray. lowed the hearse, succeeded by the profes- "G. Webster, Pres. " J. M. Beane sors and friends in mourning-.coaches, and a R. Davidson John Castle Jos. Howell long train of private carriages. The Rev. Wm. Eales T. Dale, late Professor of Rhetoric in UniM. W. Wagstaff I Thomas POl’tN Charles Bradv versity College, and now Professor of Rhe- Patrick Mollison t,oric in King’s College, officiated at the inEdwd. Doubleday H. Whitmore ’ terment. R. Menzies John Taylor Dr. Turner had for many sessions past W. R. Harrison H. Sidden been declining, and his thin and emaciated N. Delph R. L. Hooper appearance always excited much attention in Geo. Parsons IE. Crisp the new students ; but his mind never inJ. Syer Bristowe Edw.Evans dicated any sympathy with its tenement. Jas. Couthred S. I. Bayfield He did not suffer more than ordinarily this John Clarke George Hull." session. He continued lecturing on till the Minate of Council, Feb. 9, 18M:-’’ 18th of January, when an attach of influThomas Wakley, Esq.. M.P enza interrupted his ordinary avocations, solved,-That but getting better he lectured again on be requested to present the Petition agree’! the following Wednesday, though with upon, to the House of Commons, and th much difficulty, and for the last time; the each Member of Council do obtain the sup catarrhal symptoms were renewed, pneumo- port of any Member of Parliament he may nia came on, his system could not bear up be enabled to procure for such Petition," Sec, WILLIAM EALES, Hon. Hon, Sec. against the attack, and on Sunday, the 13th of February, he died, in the 40th year of his To the Right Honourable and Honourable age. the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, In Dr. Turner science has lost one of her Gaeat Britain and Ireland, in Parliama most distinguished votaries. He may, inPetitiav of Gentlement assembled,-the to have sacrificed his life deed, be said upon are Members of the MEDICAL SocteTV her shrine. No man more ardently loved LONDON: the object of his pursuits, and in the recent splendid discoveries of chemistry he felt the Humbly sheweth,-That your P deepest interest. As a teacher he evinced tioners have seen, with much regret, th clearness of intellect, and entire knowledge adoption of a system, by the Poor La of his subject; he was precise in expression, Commissioners, of appointing medical officer and took a kindly interest in the progress ’, to parishes, and the unions of parishes, of his pupils ; and, as a consequence, he was tablished under the Poor Law Amendment admired and beloved by every member of Act, which they cannot but consider it, .his class. He was extensively known as an inconsistent with humanity, destructive author, by his " Elements of Chemistry," the health of the poor, and degradingt : a work which affords abundant evidence of medical profession : " Your Petitioners, therefore, hub diligent research, and an intimate acquaintthe science. with ance pray that your Honourable Housew.
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DR. TURNER. MEDICAL AID TO THE SICK POOR IN THE UNIONS. THE Professor of Chemistry in University PETITIONS TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. College, breathed his last on Sunday, the 12th of February, 1837. The suddenness of this " To the Right Honourable and Honourable occurrence shed great gloom on the instituthe Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in On Monday morning the students tion. Parliament assembled,—the Petition of were made acquainted with the painful the President and Council of the BRITISH event by the closure of the class-rooms for MEDICAL ASSOCIATION : the day, and they were quickly excited by 11 Humbly sheweth,-That your Petition. a desire to express their respect for his chahaving taken into their most serious M. racter by following his remains to the grave; sideration the system at present adopted’" and at a meeting on Tuesday a resolution was the Poor Law Commissioners for atFoedi; to the sick poor, do higi,i passed, that a request should be forwarded to medical relief the family of the deceased for permission to disapprove of the same as unjust to tt, classes, injurious to the commnit attend in the funeral train. This was acced- poorer at large, and derogatory to the charartf, ed, and a committee accordingly made ar- and respectability of the medical professifi,, " Your Petitioners therefore humbly, 6u rangements for the procession. On Friday earnestly, pray that your Honour. was borne the from the house body night be pleased to make such it House will at Hampstead to the college, and at twelve into the alleged evils, and to enar’ quiries o’clock on Saturday the corpse was convey- such measures,as to your Honourable Rou’, ed to the new cemetry at Kensall Green,i may appear necessary :And your Pi Upwards of three hundred students fol- tioners will ever pray. lowed the hearse, succeeded by the profes- "G. Webster, Pres. " J. M. Beane sors and friends in mourning-.coaches, and a R. Davidson John Castle Jos. Howell long train of private carriages. The Rev. Wm. Eales T. Dale, late Professor of Rhetoric in UniM. W. Wagstaff I Thomas POl’tN Charles Bradv versity College, and now Professor of Rhe- Patrick Mollison t,oric in King’s College, officiated at the inEdwd. Doubleday H. Whitmore ’ terment. R. Menzies John Taylor Dr. Turner had for many sessions past W. R. Harrison H. Sidden been declining, and his thin and emaciated N. Delph R. L. Hooper appearance always excited much attention in Geo. Parsons IE. Crisp the new students ; but his mind never inJ. Syer Bristowe Edw.Evans dicated any sympathy with its tenement. Jas. Couthred S. I. Bayfield He did not suffer more than ordinarily this John Clarke George Hull." session. He continued lecturing on till the Minate of Council, Feb. 9, 18M:-’’ 18th of January, when an attach of influThomas Wakley, Esq.. M.P enza interrupted his ordinary avocations, solved,-That but getting better he lectured again on be requested to present the Petition agree’! the following Wednesday, though with upon, to the House of Commons, and th much difficulty, and for the last time; the each Member of Council do obtain the sup catarrhal symptoms were renewed, pneumo- port of any Member of Parliament he may nia came on, his system could not bear up be enabled to procure for such Petition," Sec, WILLIAM EALES, Hon. Hon, Sec. against the attack, and on Sunday, the 13th of February, he died, in the 40th year of his To the Right Honourable and Honourable age. the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, In Dr. Turner science has lost one of her Gaeat Britain and Ireland, in Parliama most distinguished votaries. He may, inPetitiav of Gentlement assembled,-the to have sacrificed his life deed, be said upon are Members of the MEDICAL SocteTV her shrine. No man more ardently loved LONDON: the object of his pursuits, and in the recent splendid discoveries of chemistry he felt the Humbly sheweth,-That your P deepest interest. As a teacher he evinced tioners have seen, with much regret, th clearness of intellect, and entire knowledge adoption of a system, by the Poor La of his subject; he was precise in expression, Commissioners, of appointing medical officer and took a kindly interest in the progress ’, to parishes, and the unions of parishes, of his pupils ; and, as a consequence, he was tablished under the Poor Law Amendment admired and beloved by every member of Act, which they cannot but consider it, .his class. He was extensively known as an inconsistent with humanity, destructive author, by his " Elements of Chemistry," the health of the poor, and degradingt : a work which affords abundant evidence of medical profession : " Your Petitioners, therefore, hub diligent research, and an intimate acquaintthe science. with ance pray that your Honourable Housew.
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