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MR. PHILLIPS' REPLY TO MR. EVERITT'S ADDITIONAL REMARKS.
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itsvalue; it betrays and demonstrates what were the intentions and objects of those MR. PHILLIPS’ REPLY who secretly concocted thenew charter. TO MR. EVERITT’S ADDITIONAL REMARKS. It may now safely be affirmed, that if it were possible to drag to the light of heaven To the Editor of THE LANCET. the instructions to counsel on that occasion, this would be found amongst them, this SIR :—I regret that I am compelled again nefarious attempt to saddle a private, .infa- to address you. I shall do so as briefly as mons,. useless, ruinous monopoly, on a possible. useful public establishment. Mr. Everitt observes, that by a "curious The men of law, however, have betrayed coincidence " the same misprint of three for their clients,—the school is no essential part two occurs in my translation as in the ori1I’halerel’ of the charter,—that document ginal ; s-arely Mr. Everitt does not expect merely pamits the appropriation of the col- thatI should remember the quantities of inlege funds to the maintenance of the the- gredients used in every formula; or that atres and schools, (permits, if the college when no doubt arose, I should on every ocplenses),but it contains no binding enactment casion refer to original documents. whatsoever. Neither does it specify to The statement is repeated by Mr. Everit.t, the schools what and theatres so purpose maintained shall.be applied. So far as the charter is concerned, they might all be levelled with the dust to-morrow ; or they might be let to Mr. CA T.CRAFT for a rent :°., or, what is of more consequence, they might be filled with professors of other topics besides the mere elements of medical instruction, topics which might shed a lustre upon, and redound to the interest of, the
profession,-not
as
now !
The
college
and three quarters of than two measures, to reduce one measure of the stronger solution of ammonia to the weaker one. This is not the case; when these fluids are mixed, neither expansion nor condensation occurs; and calculation coincides with experiment to prove, that when two measures of water are mixed with one measure of solution of ammonia of sp. gr. 0.882, is three measures of solution of sp. gr. 0.960 that
one
water
measure
are more
nearly required
also permitted by charter to purchase estates are obtained. to the amount of £2000 or ;C3000 per annum, It is remarked by Mr. Everitt, that I have but whoever dreams of saying that such is omitted the word about, used by him, in quantity of water to be emrequired by law ? And if the stock-purse be directingin the a process: I admit the charge, ployed not forthcoming, it must be supplied by but deny that the omission in any way drains on the private pockets of the mem- affects the point at issue. He says that he bers ! and yet one position is as ostensible did not intend to give the exact strength of the product :-" I said put about (a little as the other. omitted by Mr. Phillips) 30 parts of No, in spite of 11 education," in spite of word water." I shall not Mr. Everitt’s fraud, in spite of cunning and casuistry, the intention, but I mustquestion maintain that his dischool and the college have been diagnosed, rections are precise for obtaining solution of and men begin to see and to feel that a mere ammonia of sp. gr. 0.960, the word about apprivate school, which swallows up every plying only to the quantity of water to be receiver, and not to the whole thing that might by chance be of public put into the to be obtained, for Mr. E. says, " by quantity advantage, and yields no return whatever the time that the 30 parts of water in the (but to the teachers in it), is but sorry fruit receiver bottle have increased to 35 parts, indeed, for such cumbrous machinery as a nearly all the ammonia will have passed royal corporation. In spite of Messrs. over." There is no about as to the sp. gr. HARRISON and JACOB’S selfish chicanery, of the solution, nor any as to its quantity;
that if it be demanded, and either by putting water into the receiver ’ or by distilling it with the ammonia, direcis Of what use your vaunted college, and tions. are distinctly given for obtaining 35 what reason can you assign why sentence of of solution of ammonia of sp. gr. 0.960 death should not be passed upon it?" theyfrom ten parts of muriate of ammonia. Permit me to add, that corrections of can receive no satisfactory answer in reply, errors occurring in the translation, may some not even in extenuation of punishment ; had of Mr. Highley, Bookseller, 32, , be in but they must, shame and silence, point t Fleet-street. I remain, Sir, your obedient to the school, that useless incumbrance, theservant, fruitful source of many a mischief. They R. PHILLIPS. PHILLIPS see that if they are to survive such investiP.S. Your correspondent, Mr. Whipple, gation, they must, and quickly, build thathas detected errors in three formulae which hope upon some more solid foundation.Ihave committed, and charged me with Forewarned is forearmed, about the same number which I have not,
men
see and feel,
"
parts
’
itsvalue; it betrays and demonstrates what were the intentions and objects of those MR. PHILLIPS’ REPLY who secretly concocted thenew charter. TO MR. EVERITT’S ADDITIONAL REMARKS. It may now safely be affirmed, that if it were possible to drag to the light of heaven To the Editor of THE LANCET. the instructions to counsel on that occasion, this would be found amongst them, this SIR :—I regret that I am compelled again nefarious attempt to saddle a private, .infa- to address you. I shall do so as briefly as mons,. useless, ruinous monopoly, on a possible. useful public establishment. Mr. Everitt observes, that by a "curious The men of law, however, have betrayed coincidence " the same misprint of three for their clients,—the school is no essential part two occurs in my translation as in the ori1I’halerel’ of the charter,—that document ginal ; s-arely Mr. Everitt does not expect merely pamits the appropriation of the col- thatI should remember the quantities of inlege funds to the maintenance of the the- gredients used in every formula; or that atres and schools, (permits, if the college when no doubt arose, I should on every ocplenses),but it contains no binding enactment casion refer to original documents. whatsoever. Neither does it specify to The statement is repeated by Mr. Everit.t, the schools what and theatres so purpose maintained shall.be applied. So far as the charter is concerned, they might all be levelled with the dust to-morrow ; or they might be let to Mr. CA T.CRAFT for a rent :°., or, what is of more consequence, they might be filled with professors of other topics besides the mere elements of medical instruction, topics which might shed a lustre upon, and redound to the interest of, the
profession,-not
as
now !
The
college
and three quarters of than two measures, to reduce one measure of the stronger solution of ammonia to the weaker one. This is not the case; when these fluids are mixed, neither expansion nor condensation occurs; and calculation coincides with experiment to prove, that when two measures of water are mixed with one measure of solution of ammonia of sp. gr. 0.882, is three measures of solution of sp. gr. 0.960 that
one
water
measure
are more
nearly required
also permitted by charter to purchase estates are obtained. to the amount of £2000 or ;C3000 per annum, It is remarked by Mr. Everitt, that I have but whoever dreams of saying that such is omitted the word about, used by him, in quantity of water to be emrequired by law ? And if the stock-purse be directingin the a process: I admit the charge, ployed not forthcoming, it must be supplied by but deny that the omission in any way drains on the private pockets of the mem- affects the point at issue. He says that he bers ! and yet one position is as ostensible did not intend to give the exact strength of the product :-" I said put about (a little as the other. omitted by Mr. Phillips) 30 parts of No, in spite of 11 education," in spite of word water." I shall not Mr. Everitt’s fraud, in spite of cunning and casuistry, the intention, but I mustquestion maintain that his dischool and the college have been diagnosed, rections are precise for obtaining solution of and men begin to see and to feel that a mere ammonia of sp. gr. 0.960, the word about apprivate school, which swallows up every plying only to the quantity of water to be receiver, and not to the whole thing that might by chance be of public put into the to be obtained, for Mr. E. says, " by quantity advantage, and yields no return whatever the time that the 30 parts of water in the (but to the teachers in it), is but sorry fruit receiver bottle have increased to 35 parts, indeed, for such cumbrous machinery as a nearly all the ammonia will have passed royal corporation. In spite of Messrs. over." There is no about as to the sp. gr. HARRISON and JACOB’S selfish chicanery, of the solution, nor any as to its quantity;
that if it be demanded, and either by putting water into the receiver ’ or by distilling it with the ammonia, direcis Of what use your vaunted college, and tions. are distinctly given for obtaining 35 what reason can you assign why sentence of of solution of ammonia of sp. gr. 0.960 death should not be passed upon it?" theyfrom ten parts of muriate of ammonia. Permit me to add, that corrections of can receive no satisfactory answer in reply, errors occurring in the translation, may some not even in extenuation of punishment ; had of Mr. Highley, Bookseller, 32, , be in but they must, shame and silence, point t Fleet-street. I remain, Sir, your obedient to the school, that useless incumbrance, theservant, fruitful source of many a mischief. They R. PHILLIPS. PHILLIPS see that if they are to survive such investiP.S. Your correspondent, Mr. Whipple, gation, they must, and quickly, build thathas detected errors in three formulae which hope upon some more solid foundation.Ihave committed, and charged me with Forewarned is forearmed, about the same number which I have not,
men
see and feel,
"
parts
’