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NAVAL SURGEONS.
832 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
NAVAL SURGEONS. To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
THE followingletter was received at thl SIR,—Will you have the kindness to in. Editor’s residence at the moment the Jour. form the discontented author of the letter signed " A Licentiate" (pae 799 of your nal was goingto press. last Number), that the College of Plasicians exacts RESULT OF THE DEPUTATION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN.-
THE ORDER OF EXCLUSION FROM
HIS
MAJESTY’S LEVEES RESCINDED. To tlae Members
of the Royal College of Surgeons.
nothing beyond
is en-
what it
titled to exact by virtue of the act of Par. linment and the College charter,—that all the students at each of our universities have just as much right to complain of the College and other fees exacted from them there. So again, in all public aud government utfi. ces, he will find that whoever applies for their advantages, is subject to demands on his purse,-that in law he is drained of fees at every step,-and, in short, that there must be a thorough revolution iu all these institutions and proceedings, before his quid pro quo accounts can be satisfactorily itudit. ed,—that if he be an Aberdeen or other
G ENTLEMEN,—In obedience to your resolution of the 8th inst., we have this day Dub, he cannot expect to enjoy the priviwaited on his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, leges of better educated men, and must submit to the privation, and stitle his on the subject of the exclusion of the sur- I. s.d. murmurs, satisfied with the privi. that his paltry "32l." gives of maklege, geons and assistant-surgeons of the navy ing his fortune (as many licentiates do), from his Majesty’s levees. His Grace said bv the power which he cannot otherwise he B ‘
had great pleasure in beingable
to au-
obtain of practising as a physician
at all in
London. As to his discontentat thorize us to communicate to you the fol- the paper which he heard at the Collegeif it contained many "self-evident fatts," lowing answer :they are surely preferable to lies which elutle detection. If it yielded but little " That his Majesty entertained the kind- instruction," let him supply the Colter yt I he can !) with one that yields more! If lie est feelings towards the surgeons and assist. or near
felt " disappointment,"
he
fear of any one "
him! And if he
was
quite
at
ant-surgeons of his navy ; that the order liberty to walk out, without, probably, the
rescinded, and that
in
future those officers would be admitted
to
complained the levees
of
was,
through
and employ it in future fit or satisfaction."
the Lords of the Admi-
our
warmest
more to
AGRESTIS.
congratulations
upon this result, we have the honour to remain, your faithful servants, GEORGE WALKER, THOMAS KING.
to go
hisbene-
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
ralty." Offering you
missing
regret the loss of time," advise him
[For
have a
a
letter
on
the
same
subject,
but of
very different tenor from the above, not room this week.—ED. L.]
we
209, Piccadilly, March 17’, 1831. P.S. Mr. Wakley h&ving to
attend
was
a
subpoenaed
trial atMasdstone this
deprived
deputation.
been
the
pleasure
of
day,
joining
he
the
TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are a=ain most reluetantly compelled to postpone the insertion of several cnmmunications which we have long had on hand ; but we shall speedily he enabled to discharge all the claims our correspondents have on us,-we hope to their satisfation.
NAVAL SURGEONS. To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
THE followingletter was received at thl SIR,—Will you have the kindness to in. Editor’s residence at the moment the Jour. form the discontented author of the letter signed " A Licentiate" (pae 799 of your nal was goingto press. last Number), that the College of Plasicians exacts RESULT OF THE DEPUTATION TO THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN.-
THE ORDER OF EXCLUSION FROM
HIS
MAJESTY’S LEVEES RESCINDED. To tlae Members
of the Royal College of Surgeons.
nothing beyond
is en-
what it
titled to exact by virtue of the act of Par. linment and the College charter,—that all the students at each of our universities have just as much right to complain of the College and other fees exacted from them there. So again, in all public aud government utfi. ces, he will find that whoever applies for their advantages, is subject to demands on his purse,-that in law he is drained of fees at every step,-and, in short, that there must be a thorough revolution iu all these institutions and proceedings, before his quid pro quo accounts can be satisfactorily itudit. ed,—that if he be an Aberdeen or other
G ENTLEMEN,—In obedience to your resolution of the 8th inst., we have this day Dub, he cannot expect to enjoy the priviwaited on his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, leges of better educated men, and must submit to the privation, and stitle his on the subject of the exclusion of the sur- I. s.d. murmurs, satisfied with the privi. that his paltry "32l." gives of maklege, geons and assistant-surgeons of the navy ing his fortune (as many licentiates do), from his Majesty’s levees. His Grace said bv the power which he cannot otherwise he B ‘
had great pleasure in beingable
to au-
obtain of practising as a physician
at all in
London. As to his discontentat thorize us to communicate to you the fol- the paper which he heard at the Collegeif it contained many "self-evident fatts," lowing answer :they are surely preferable to lies which elutle detection. If it yielded but little " That his Majesty entertained the kind- instruction," let him supply the Colter yt I he can !) with one that yields more! If lie est feelings towards the surgeons and assist. or near
felt " disappointment,"
he
fear of any one "
him! And if he
was
quite
at
ant-surgeons of his navy ; that the order liberty to walk out, without, probably, the
rescinded, and that
in
future those officers would be admitted
to
complained the levees
of
was,
through
and employ it in future fit or satisfaction."
the Lords of the Admi-
our
warmest
more to
AGRESTIS.
congratulations
upon this result, we have the honour to remain, your faithful servants, GEORGE WALKER, THOMAS KING.
to go
hisbene-
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
ralty." Offering you
missing
regret the loss of time," advise him
[For
have a
a
letter
on
the
same
subject,
but of
very different tenor from the above, not room this week.—ED. L.]
we
209, Piccadilly, March 17’, 1831. P.S. Mr. Wakley h&ving to
attend
was
a
subpoenaed
trial atMasdstone this
deprived
deputation.
been
the
pleasure
of
day,
joining
he
the
TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are a=ain most reluetantly compelled to postpone the insertion of several cnmmunications which we have long had on hand ; but we shall speedily he enabled to discharge all the claims our correspondents have on us,-we hope to their satisfation.