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FELLOWSHIP OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.
585 the praiseworthy and honourable motive of qualifying them- officers of the Royal Infirmary, that while every proper enselves for examination, and of becoming respectable and legal couragement is given to students, every one, on entering to practitioners. But the Committee submit that while this your hospital practice, should be required to pledge himself should be to a certain extent encouraged, it should not be not to practise medicine and surgery for emolument during his pupilage. The committee have the greater confidence in done at the expense or to the detriment of the profession. It is, therefore, respectfully suggested that while every recommending this proceeding, inasmuch that they believe,
that while it will be of advantage to the profession, it will also be conducive to the real interests of those immediately affected by it. A little temporary loss of a-practice, which cannot recommend itself to them as honourable, will be fully made up to them in after life, when, on commencing their professional career, they are in turn protected. Signed on behalf of the Medico-Ethical Association, JAMES LoMAx BARDSLET, M.D., President. JOHN AIKENHEAD, M.D., Hon. Secs. Secs. W. C. WILLIAMSON, Manchester, March 18, 1851.
is given to the honourable and aspiring he should be required, on entering his curriculum of study, to confine himself strictly within the limits of his calling, and to pledge himself not to practise medicine. If this should occasionally be deemed a hardship, it will be an initiation into honourable and professional conduct, and even conducive to his future interests when he finds, upon entering into practice legally, that in turn he is equally protected. So far, the Committee speak of those who are actuated by the most commendable motives. It is a fact well known, however, that many enter the schools for the purpose of direct emolument. Certificates of lectures are exhibited as licences and diplomas, and the ignorant are led to believe- that their possessors are fully qualified medical men. In some districts this has been attended with results which the lecturers of your schools would be pained to learn; and the Committee feel assured that these are consequences of provincial medical
encouragement
druggist,
Hon.
____
Manchester, March 31,
1851.
GENTLEMEN—Ihave been requested to transmit to you the following resolution, which was passed at a meeting of the lecturers of the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, held on the 28th of March, 1851. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
schools which their spirited founders never contemplated, and would willingly remove. Of course, it is not for a moment considered that the refusal of a pupil who would not pledge himself, or of a certificate to one who had violated his agree-
R. T. HUNT.
(Hon. Sec. of the
School.)
of a communication from the president and honorary secretaries of the Manchester MedicoEthical Association, addressed to the registrar and lecturers of the Pine-street School of Medicine, and relating to the students of the School, be acknowledged."
RESOLVED,-That the receipt
ment, could be retrospective; but it is considered that it might
with honour and advantage be carried out with all new students, and prospectively even with those who have only entered to single courses or to single sessions. The Committee beg further to state that this evil which they deplore and seek to remedy has already received the attention of the Leeds School of Medicine, which has adopted a course somewhat similar to that now pressed upon your consideration. In conclusion, the Committee desire that the subject may be taken up by the several institutions named in the resolution above referred to in the spirit which actuated the MedicoEthical Association, believing that whilst it will be grateful to the profession generally, it will more especially be calculated to exalt the character and position of those institutions, by giving their alumni a higher character and themselves an increasing usefulness and permanency. Signed on behalf of the Medico-Ethical Association, President. JAMES LOMAX BARDSLEY, M.D., President. JOHN AIKENHEAD, M.D., M.D.,1 Hon. Hon Secs. Sees. W. C. WILLIAMSON, } Manchester, March is, 1851.
Honorary Secretaries of the Medico-Ethical Association.
To the President and
Chatham-street School of Medicine,
April 11, 1851. last meeting of the lecturers of the Chatham-street School of Medicine, I presented your memorial relating to the exaction of a pledge from students on entering to the courses of lectures delivered in this place. After maturely considering your suggestion, the following sentiment was carried by a majority of those present at the meeting :"The lecturers of the Chatham-street School of Medicine beg to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial of the MedicoEthical Society, and regret equally with them the faults alluded to; but they are of opinion that they would not be justified in pursuing the course pointed out to them by the
GENTLEMEN,-At the
Hon.
society."
____
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Yours very respectfully, T. H. WATTS.
Physicians and Surgeons of the Manchester Royal To the President and Honorary Secretaries of the Infirmary. Medico-Ethical Association. GENTLEMEN,—At the last annual meeting of the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association, Jan. 7th, 1851, it was resolved Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, &c., Manchester, April 24, 1851. unanimously,That the important proposal of submitting to the medical officers of the hospital and medical schools in this SIR By order of the Medical Board, I beg leave to send town, the propriety of not allowing persons practising whilst you extracts from the minutes of proceedings passed at the unqualified to attend the practice and lectures of those insti- meeting held this morning. I ain, tutions, be submitted to the early consideration of the Comam, most respectfully, Sir, mittee, that they may take the necessary steps in the matter." Your obedient servant, J. WOODWARD, Increasing and wide-spread complaints are continually being WOODwARD, Sec. made concerning the injurious effects upon the profession, of To the President of the Medico-Ethical Association. persons practising medicine, with a view to emolument, during ’"Read a communication from the Medico-Ethical Society. their pupilage and attendance upon hospital practice; and this committee, in memorializing you upon this subject, ac" Resolved,-That the control of the Medical Boards is cording to the above-named resolution, trust that it may limited to the conduct of the pupils within the wards of the receive from you that consideration which its importance hospital, and they decline to entertain the proposal of the demands. Medico-Ethical Society now submitted to them, and that a To the
!
It is well known that a considerable number of students copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Medico-Ethical upon the practice of the Royal Infirmary of late. Society." years are at the time druggists, and practising medicine as a profession. Some of these are laudably seeking to qualify FELLOWSHIP OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. themselves for examination, and to become respectable To the Editor of THE LANCET. but is it a known that a medical practitioners; fact, great number more are attending the infirmary for the sanction SIR,—I have read with much surprise the leading article and éclat which it gives them in their respective localities, upon the College Fellowship in the Medical Gazette of and for the consequent gain,-too often making statements May 9th. It will, I think, not be difficult to show that the which lead the ignorant to believe that they arequalified editor is at fault in his logic, as well as his ethics. It is there practitioners, and obtaining a degree of confidence which stated,"The College, it is contended, should treat as members their limited knowledge does not warrant-less, perhaps, to those who had commenced their professional studies prior to the injury of the man, than to the community at the Charter of 1843, and confer on the students of that period the same right as they propose to confer on men who had large. It is therefore respectfully suggested to you, as the medical already acquired the diploma. If this reasoning be good, we
entering
.
professional
,
586 do not see how the College could limit the grant of the Fellow-
considered of too paltry and contemptible a character to fill who happened to be studying their the columns of a medical journal with an account of, and which profession at the date of the charter. Such students could conduct was the sole cause of my having written the letter for have no stronger claim upon those who were to exercise the which I have incurred undue censure. Mr. Kemp has been in practice in Horbury more than five powers of the charter than gentlemen who commenced their studies at any subsequent period." years, while I have been here little more than five months. I Now, Sir, it appears to me that there can be no comparison was applied to by some of the members of the first club which between the claims of the student of 1843 and him who fell vacant after I settled here, to become their medical officer, commenced his professional studies at a subsequent period; and I agreed to take it at three shillings and sixpence each the former had a right to suppose tli-tt if he passed the same per year, including sickness, accidents, &c. I was also applied to by some of the members of a second examination as his immediate predecessors, lie should then and for ever hold the same rank in the College; but the latter club, which I offered to take on the same terms. would see before he entered upon his studies, from the printed About a fortnight before the day on which the election of regulations of the College, that there were two distinct grades medical officer took place, I was waited on by one of the in the College, and he must make his regulations accordingly. members of the second club referred to, to inform me that The editor of the Gazette further states, 11 They (the students Mr. Kemp had sent in an offer to attend the members of that of 1843) had acquired no prospective rights, and, therefore, club at two shillings and sixpence each per year, including could not be affected by a new charter issued to a College of sickness and all accidents, except those requiring the assistance which they were not members, and on which they had at the of another medical man, and that in the latter lie would not time no more claim than on the Royal College of Physicians charge anything extra for his own time and trouble. or the University of London." Here was a direct cut down of a shilling per member, and According to this code of morals it would be perfectly just on finding this, I immediately sent a letter to most of the and fair to the students who are now following the curriculum clubs in theneighbourhood, offering to take them on the same of study as directed by the College of Surgeons at the present terms as Mr. Kemp had offered, as my letter shows; and in time, for the College to issue a law stating, that from this order to prevent, if possible, a continuance of this disreputable time forth no one will be admitted a Member of the College cutting-down practice, I stated, that should the members who has not graduated in Arts at a British University. receive any offers to attend them for less than two shillings Surely, no honourable man would for a moment defend such and sixpence, (which I was justified in concluding Mr. Kemp And yet to carry out the would offer to do as he had already reduced prices,) I stated an arbitrary and unjust regulation. principle advocated by the Gazette, that students have no that I would take them at sixpence per member less; but you claim upon the College, would be to admit as much. The will observe that this was only in case an offer was made at junior members of the College may, I think, with great confi- ’ less than two shillings and sixpence. Hitherto it has been, and I hope ever will be, my endeavour dence, rely upon your aid and influence in defence of their support the dignity of a profession already far too badly just rights. to I am, Sir, your obedient servant, remunerated; but I may ask, when the elder practitioner in a Birkenhead, May, 1851. JAMES M’NICOLL. stoops to such conduct, and cuts down prices, not only in clubs, but in private practice, how is the younger one to maintain them ? I think it would be much better at once to preTHE DEGRADING CLUB SYSTEM. gratuitously, a course which I shall most probably To the Eclitor of THE LANCET. adopt if I find the lowering-price system is continued. ’ Let it be remembered, however, that at present, for the SIR,—Ishould feel obliged by your inserting in your next to which I am medical officer, I have three shillings and and which a letter the enclosed of number, copy explanation, each per year, whereas Mr. Kemp has one club, if I shall forward to the Secretary of the Wakefield Medical not more, on similar conditions, except that he has only two Society. shillings and sixpence each per year. Further than this, in I am, Sir, your obedient servant, the club which I attend, I am paid extra for journeys above WILLIAM WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B. Lond. three miles’ distance, whereas I am informed Mr. Kemp has Horbury, May 19, 1851. taken one club, in which several of the members reside above three miles off, without any extra charge for that distance, because he has medical friends in the neighbourhood who will (COPY.) Horbury, May, J9, 1851. attend them for him. It is evident, that publishing my letter, in conjunction with the enclosed account, in reference SIR,—I beg to hand you to a paragraph headed " Unprofessional Condiiet-DegrLdiDg other means which I have not condescended to notice, has offer of a Qualified Surgeon," which appeared in THE LANCET been resorted to, with the intention of misleading people, and of May the 17th inst.; and also in the Ifedical Gazette, and of giving me annoyance if possible, though I can scarcely which I should feel obliged by your laying before the think that all the members of the Wakeneld Medical Society have consciously made themselves tools in such a matter; but members of the Wakefield Medical Society. I think it would only have been courteous to have I feel assured that the " mens conscia recti"will always afford informed me of this underhand attack, and of the resolution a secure shelter from such vile attacks, and that though truth which had been passed, previously to sending it to the medical may for a short time be overclouded by falsehood, it will ultijournals; this, however, is of little consequence, as I shall mately shine with greater lustre. WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B. Lond. send a copy of my letter to you, and of the accompaning explanation to the Editors of THE LANCET and Médical Gazette for insertion, which I think sufficiently justifies the THE LATE FURUNCULOID EPIDEMIC. manner in which I have acted. To the Editor of THE LANCET. I am, Sir, yonrs, &c., WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B.Lond. SIR,—I am much interested in noticing that the observa.To W. R. Milner, Esq., Secretary to the Wakefield Medical Society. tions of Mr. J. Cooper Forster on the rightly named" Furunculoid Epidemic" have been thought worthy of a place in the pages of THE LANCET. In my own practice I have not only (COPY.) met with ten times the usual number of furuncular and carattention directed to a paragraph in THE buncular diseases, but I have found that a pustular or had my Having LANCET of May the 17th instant, I feel it necessary to place in purulent character has prevailed in the general run of That the your hands the following explanation, which will show that cutaneous affections during the last two years. the Wakefield Medical Society have been grossly imposed on, cause is not to be found in the quality of the fruit supplied to truth having been told to a certain extent, but not the whole the London markets, is apparent from the fact that these truth, and thus it has been falsely made to appear that I have diseases have been prevalent, not only in the metropolis, but acted in a discreditable manner. " People who live in glass throughout the country, and at the sea-side. So far from houses should mind how they throw stones." The fact is, being able to trace its origin to the consumption of meat or to that it is I who have to complain of most " unprofessional an improved scale of diet, I have observed it more frequently conduct," and the " degrading offer of a qualified surgeon," in connexion with a spare or insufficient diet, and the debility i esididg in liorbury, and who is, I presume, a member of the consequent thereon. In confirmation of Mr. Forster’s opinion Wakefield Medical Society-conduct which I had hitherto that it may be traced to a miasmatic poison, I may mention
ship by time to gentlemen
place
. scribe
club
sixpence
that while it will be of advantage to the profession, it will also be conducive to the real interests of those immediately affected by it. A little temporary loss of a-practice, which cannot recommend itself to them as honourable, will be fully made up to them in after life, when, on commencing their professional career, they are in turn protected. Signed on behalf of the Medico-Ethical Association, JAMES LoMAx BARDSLET, M.D., President. JOHN AIKENHEAD, M.D., Hon. Secs. Secs. W. C. WILLIAMSON, Manchester, March 18, 1851.
is given to the honourable and aspiring he should be required, on entering his curriculum of study, to confine himself strictly within the limits of his calling, and to pledge himself not to practise medicine. If this should occasionally be deemed a hardship, it will be an initiation into honourable and professional conduct, and even conducive to his future interests when he finds, upon entering into practice legally, that in turn he is equally protected. So far, the Committee speak of those who are actuated by the most commendable motives. It is a fact well known, however, that many enter the schools for the purpose of direct emolument. Certificates of lectures are exhibited as licences and diplomas, and the ignorant are led to believe- that their possessors are fully qualified medical men. In some districts this has been attended with results which the lecturers of your schools would be pained to learn; and the Committee feel assured that these are consequences of provincial medical
encouragement
druggist,
Hon.
____
Manchester, March 31,
1851.
GENTLEMEN—Ihave been requested to transmit to you the following resolution, which was passed at a meeting of the lecturers of the Manchester Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, held on the 28th of March, 1851. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
schools which their spirited founders never contemplated, and would willingly remove. Of course, it is not for a moment considered that the refusal of a pupil who would not pledge himself, or of a certificate to one who had violated his agree-
R. T. HUNT.
(Hon. Sec. of the
School.)
of a communication from the president and honorary secretaries of the Manchester MedicoEthical Association, addressed to the registrar and lecturers of the Pine-street School of Medicine, and relating to the students of the School, be acknowledged."
RESOLVED,-That the receipt
ment, could be retrospective; but it is considered that it might
with honour and advantage be carried out with all new students, and prospectively even with those who have only entered to single courses or to single sessions. The Committee beg further to state that this evil which they deplore and seek to remedy has already received the attention of the Leeds School of Medicine, which has adopted a course somewhat similar to that now pressed upon your consideration. In conclusion, the Committee desire that the subject may be taken up by the several institutions named in the resolution above referred to in the spirit which actuated the MedicoEthical Association, believing that whilst it will be grateful to the profession generally, it will more especially be calculated to exalt the character and position of those institutions, by giving their alumni a higher character and themselves an increasing usefulness and permanency. Signed on behalf of the Medico-Ethical Association, President. JAMES LOMAX BARDSLEY, M.D., President. JOHN AIKENHEAD, M.D., M.D.,1 Hon. Hon Secs. Sees. W. C. WILLIAMSON, } Manchester, March is, 1851.
Honorary Secretaries of the Medico-Ethical Association.
To the President and
Chatham-street School of Medicine,
April 11, 1851. last meeting of the lecturers of the Chatham-street School of Medicine, I presented your memorial relating to the exaction of a pledge from students on entering to the courses of lectures delivered in this place. After maturely considering your suggestion, the following sentiment was carried by a majority of those present at the meeting :"The lecturers of the Chatham-street School of Medicine beg to acknowledge the receipt of the memorial of the MedicoEthical Society, and regret equally with them the faults alluded to; but they are of opinion that they would not be justified in pursuing the course pointed out to them by the
GENTLEMEN,-At the
Hon.
society."
____
I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen, Yours very respectfully, T. H. WATTS.
Physicians and Surgeons of the Manchester Royal To the President and Honorary Secretaries of the Infirmary. Medico-Ethical Association. GENTLEMEN,—At the last annual meeting of the Manchester Medico-Ethical Association, Jan. 7th, 1851, it was resolved Royal Infirmary, Dispensary, &c., Manchester, April 24, 1851. unanimously,That the important proposal of submitting to the medical officers of the hospital and medical schools in this SIR By order of the Medical Board, I beg leave to send town, the propriety of not allowing persons practising whilst you extracts from the minutes of proceedings passed at the unqualified to attend the practice and lectures of those insti- meeting held this morning. I ain, tutions, be submitted to the early consideration of the Comam, most respectfully, Sir, mittee, that they may take the necessary steps in the matter." Your obedient servant, J. WOODWARD, Increasing and wide-spread complaints are continually being WOODwARD, Sec. made concerning the injurious effects upon the profession, of To the President of the Medico-Ethical Association. persons practising medicine, with a view to emolument, during ’"Read a communication from the Medico-Ethical Society. their pupilage and attendance upon hospital practice; and this committee, in memorializing you upon this subject, ac" Resolved,-That the control of the Medical Boards is cording to the above-named resolution, trust that it may limited to the conduct of the pupils within the wards of the receive from you that consideration which its importance hospital, and they decline to entertain the proposal of the demands. Medico-Ethical Society now submitted to them, and that a To the
!
It is well known that a considerable number of students copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Medico-Ethical upon the practice of the Royal Infirmary of late. Society." years are at the time druggists, and practising medicine as a profession. Some of these are laudably seeking to qualify FELLOWSHIP OF THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. themselves for examination, and to become respectable To the Editor of THE LANCET. but is it a known that a medical practitioners; fact, great number more are attending the infirmary for the sanction SIR,—I have read with much surprise the leading article and éclat which it gives them in their respective localities, upon the College Fellowship in the Medical Gazette of and for the consequent gain,-too often making statements May 9th. It will, I think, not be difficult to show that the which lead the ignorant to believe that they arequalified editor is at fault in his logic, as well as his ethics. It is there practitioners, and obtaining a degree of confidence which stated,"The College, it is contended, should treat as members their limited knowledge does not warrant-less, perhaps, to those who had commenced their professional studies prior to the injury of the man, than to the community at the Charter of 1843, and confer on the students of that period the same right as they propose to confer on men who had large. It is therefore respectfully suggested to you, as the medical already acquired the diploma. If this reasoning be good, we
entering
.
professional
,
586 do not see how the College could limit the grant of the Fellow-
considered of too paltry and contemptible a character to fill who happened to be studying their the columns of a medical journal with an account of, and which profession at the date of the charter. Such students could conduct was the sole cause of my having written the letter for have no stronger claim upon those who were to exercise the which I have incurred undue censure. Mr. Kemp has been in practice in Horbury more than five powers of the charter than gentlemen who commenced their studies at any subsequent period." years, while I have been here little more than five months. I Now, Sir, it appears to me that there can be no comparison was applied to by some of the members of the first club which between the claims of the student of 1843 and him who fell vacant after I settled here, to become their medical officer, commenced his professional studies at a subsequent period; and I agreed to take it at three shillings and sixpence each the former had a right to suppose tli-tt if he passed the same per year, including sickness, accidents, &c. I was also applied to by some of the members of a second examination as his immediate predecessors, lie should then and for ever hold the same rank in the College; but the latter club, which I offered to take on the same terms. would see before he entered upon his studies, from the printed About a fortnight before the day on which the election of regulations of the College, that there were two distinct grades medical officer took place, I was waited on by one of the in the College, and he must make his regulations accordingly. members of the second club referred to, to inform me that The editor of the Gazette further states, 11 They (the students Mr. Kemp had sent in an offer to attend the members of that of 1843) had acquired no prospective rights, and, therefore, club at two shillings and sixpence each per year, including could not be affected by a new charter issued to a College of sickness and all accidents, except those requiring the assistance which they were not members, and on which they had at the of another medical man, and that in the latter lie would not time no more claim than on the Royal College of Physicians charge anything extra for his own time and trouble. or the University of London." Here was a direct cut down of a shilling per member, and According to this code of morals it would be perfectly just on finding this, I immediately sent a letter to most of the and fair to the students who are now following the curriculum clubs in theneighbourhood, offering to take them on the same of study as directed by the College of Surgeons at the present terms as Mr. Kemp had offered, as my letter shows; and in time, for the College to issue a law stating, that from this order to prevent, if possible, a continuance of this disreputable time forth no one will be admitted a Member of the College cutting-down practice, I stated, that should the members who has not graduated in Arts at a British University. receive any offers to attend them for less than two shillings Surely, no honourable man would for a moment defend such and sixpence, (which I was justified in concluding Mr. Kemp And yet to carry out the would offer to do as he had already reduced prices,) I stated an arbitrary and unjust regulation. principle advocated by the Gazette, that students have no that I would take them at sixpence per member less; but you claim upon the College, would be to admit as much. The will observe that this was only in case an offer was made at junior members of the College may, I think, with great confi- ’ less than two shillings and sixpence. Hitherto it has been, and I hope ever will be, my endeavour dence, rely upon your aid and influence in defence of their support the dignity of a profession already far too badly just rights. to I am, Sir, your obedient servant, remunerated; but I may ask, when the elder practitioner in a Birkenhead, May, 1851. JAMES M’NICOLL. stoops to such conduct, and cuts down prices, not only in clubs, but in private practice, how is the younger one to maintain them ? I think it would be much better at once to preTHE DEGRADING CLUB SYSTEM. gratuitously, a course which I shall most probably To the Eclitor of THE LANCET. adopt if I find the lowering-price system is continued. ’ Let it be remembered, however, that at present, for the SIR,—Ishould feel obliged by your inserting in your next to which I am medical officer, I have three shillings and and which a letter the enclosed of number, copy explanation, each per year, whereas Mr. Kemp has one club, if I shall forward to the Secretary of the Wakefield Medical not more, on similar conditions, except that he has only two Society. shillings and sixpence each per year. Further than this, in I am, Sir, your obedient servant, the club which I attend, I am paid extra for journeys above WILLIAM WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B. Lond. three miles’ distance, whereas I am informed Mr. Kemp has Horbury, May 19, 1851. taken one club, in which several of the members reside above three miles off, without any extra charge for that distance, because he has medical friends in the neighbourhood who will (COPY.) Horbury, May, J9, 1851. attend them for him. It is evident, that publishing my letter, in conjunction with the enclosed account, in reference SIR,—I beg to hand you to a paragraph headed " Unprofessional Condiiet-DegrLdiDg other means which I have not condescended to notice, has offer of a Qualified Surgeon," which appeared in THE LANCET been resorted to, with the intention of misleading people, and of May the 17th inst.; and also in the Ifedical Gazette, and of giving me annoyance if possible, though I can scarcely which I should feel obliged by your laying before the think that all the members of the Wakeneld Medical Society have consciously made themselves tools in such a matter; but members of the Wakefield Medical Society. I think it would only have been courteous to have I feel assured that the " mens conscia recti"will always afford informed me of this underhand attack, and of the resolution a secure shelter from such vile attacks, and that though truth which had been passed, previously to sending it to the medical may for a short time be overclouded by falsehood, it will ultijournals; this, however, is of little consequence, as I shall mately shine with greater lustre. WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B. Lond. send a copy of my letter to you, and of the accompaning explanation to the Editors of THE LANCET and Médical Gazette for insertion, which I think sufficiently justifies the THE LATE FURUNCULOID EPIDEMIC. manner in which I have acted. To the Editor of THE LANCET. I am, Sir, yonrs, &c., WILLIAM HENRY THORNTON, M.B.Lond. SIR,—I am much interested in noticing that the observa.To W. R. Milner, Esq., Secretary to the Wakefield Medical Society. tions of Mr. J. Cooper Forster on the rightly named" Furunculoid Epidemic" have been thought worthy of a place in the pages of THE LANCET. In my own practice I have not only (COPY.) met with ten times the usual number of furuncular and carattention directed to a paragraph in THE buncular diseases, but I have found that a pustular or had my Having LANCET of May the 17th instant, I feel it necessary to place in purulent character has prevailed in the general run of That the your hands the following explanation, which will show that cutaneous affections during the last two years. the Wakefield Medical Society have been grossly imposed on, cause is not to be found in the quality of the fruit supplied to truth having been told to a certain extent, but not the whole the London markets, is apparent from the fact that these truth, and thus it has been falsely made to appear that I have diseases have been prevalent, not only in the metropolis, but acted in a discreditable manner. " People who live in glass throughout the country, and at the sea-side. So far from houses should mind how they throw stones." The fact is, being able to trace its origin to the consumption of meat or to that it is I who have to complain of most " unprofessional an improved scale of diet, I have observed it more frequently conduct," and the " degrading offer of a qualified surgeon," in connexion with a spare or insufficient diet, and the debility i esididg in liorbury, and who is, I presume, a member of the consequent thereon. In confirmation of Mr. Forster’s opinion Wakefield Medical Society-conduct which I had hitherto that it may be traced to a miasmatic poison, I may mention
ship by time to gentlemen
place
. scribe
club
sixpence