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NON-MEDICAL CORONERS.
693 NON-MEDICAL CORONERS.
PETITION To the
Editorof TxE
LANCET.
OF
it meet with your approbation, I request the favour of the insertion of the DR. HARRISON AND OTHERS following in your next LANCET. On Wed. TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, nesday, July 25th, a boy named AbraCOMPLAINING OF on the hams was killed in Portsea, and
SIR,—If
inquest the followingparticulars elicited. The first witness deposed to his havingseen the boy knocked down by a cart (the horse of which had taken fright), but could not state whether the wheel had
coroner’s were
ABUSES WHICH EXIST IN LEGE OF
THE
ROYAL COL-
PHYSICIANS, LONDON.
To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
SIR,—I write to desire the favour of you not. The next to publish in your next journal the subthat she saw the Petition for the information of your horse running away and the boy near; and joined numerous readers. on again turning round, she saw the boy It was presented to the House of Comon the pavement, apparently dead, and the mons on the 6th instant by Joseph Hume, horse and cart quiet. The surgeon, who and is already printed by order of the first saw the boy after the accident, stated Esq., House. I am, Sir, yours, very truly, there was a wound laying bare the bone on E. HARRISON. HARRISOY. the left side of the os frontis, but no visible Holles Street, Cavendish Square, fracture; the abdomen was also swelled, August 21st, 1832. and there was the appearance of a contusion over the right hypochondrium ; he further stated, that the gave one or two con- To the Honourable the Commous of the United vulsive inspirations after he saw him, and Kingdo7n of Great Britain and Ireland then expired. The surgeon, moreover, ttt Parliament assembled. stated that he could not swear to the cause The humble Petition of the undersigned Phyof death, but requested that an examination sioans of thebody might take place. Would you Showeth,—That a College of Physicians believe it, Mr. Editor, that the coroner stated to the jury, that he had no power to exists in London, assuming powers which order an inspection ; and is it to be believed your Petitioners are prepared to prove havee that the jury, under the coroner’s direction, an injurious effect upon the subjects of returned the following verdict (although these realms and the practice of medicine. That the attention of medical men in none of the medical gentlemen, amounting department of the profession has, at every to four or five, who saw the body, believed the existence of a fracture), viz., that the length, been roused to the manifold evils from its defective arrangement, deceased died of a fracture of the skull, and the sources from which they respecproduced by the wheel of a cart passing The great body of British over the heat ! ! ! ! who are excluded from their physicians These facts, for which I can vouch, need inherent rights in the College of Physicians, no comments ; it is scarcely possible to be- most respectfully submit that it is fitting to lieve, that in these times a coroner should inquire into the grounds of their rejection, be found, who would thus state to the jury and to enable them to assert their just that he had no power to order an inspec- claims to participate in its honours and tion of the body of a person whose death emoluments, and to promote the general may have been occasioned under suspicious interests of the profession. circumstances. Moreover it has since apYour Petitioners beg to state, that the peared, that the boy was knocked down " College or commonalty of the faculty of by one of the shafts, and that the contusion Physic sometimes denominated the Royal over the region of the liver was produced College of Physicians, was founded by Act by the ball of the wheel coming in contact of Parliament more than three hundred with him, and pressing him against the years ago, for several highly important wall. Query, Whence came the evidence of purposes. fracture of the brain, and of the wheel passAt first its affairs were managed agreeing over the head? ably to the charter, and it then fulfilled By inserting the above you will much the wise and benevolent intentions of the founder. Medical science was assiduously obJige your obedient servant, A MEDICAL REFORMER. cultivated, and meritorious practitioners
passed
over
witness,
a
the
body
woman,
or
swore
boy
proceeding tively spring.
Portsea, August 3, 1832.
liberally encouraged ; quacks were punish. ed, and the public, health was carefully ’
protected,
PETITION To the
Editorof TxE
LANCET.
OF
it meet with your approbation, I request the favour of the insertion of the DR. HARRISON AND OTHERS following in your next LANCET. On Wed. TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, nesday, July 25th, a boy named AbraCOMPLAINING OF on the hams was killed in Portsea, and
SIR,—If
inquest the followingparticulars elicited. The first witness deposed to his havingseen the boy knocked down by a cart (the horse of which had taken fright), but could not state whether the wheel had
coroner’s were
ABUSES WHICH EXIST IN LEGE OF
THE
ROYAL COL-
PHYSICIANS, LONDON.
To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
SIR,—I write to desire the favour of you not. The next to publish in your next journal the subthat she saw the Petition for the information of your horse running away and the boy near; and joined numerous readers. on again turning round, she saw the boy It was presented to the House of Comon the pavement, apparently dead, and the mons on the 6th instant by Joseph Hume, horse and cart quiet. The surgeon, who and is already printed by order of the first saw the boy after the accident, stated Esq., House. I am, Sir, yours, very truly, there was a wound laying bare the bone on E. HARRISON. HARRISOY. the left side of the os frontis, but no visible Holles Street, Cavendish Square, fracture; the abdomen was also swelled, August 21st, 1832. and there was the appearance of a contusion over the right hypochondrium ; he further stated, that the gave one or two con- To the Honourable the Commous of the United vulsive inspirations after he saw him, and Kingdo7n of Great Britain and Ireland then expired. The surgeon, moreover, ttt Parliament assembled. stated that he could not swear to the cause The humble Petition of the undersigned Phyof death, but requested that an examination sioans of thebody might take place. Would you Showeth,—That a College of Physicians believe it, Mr. Editor, that the coroner stated to the jury, that he had no power to exists in London, assuming powers which order an inspection ; and is it to be believed your Petitioners are prepared to prove havee that the jury, under the coroner’s direction, an injurious effect upon the subjects of returned the following verdict (although these realms and the practice of medicine. That the attention of medical men in none of the medical gentlemen, amounting department of the profession has, at every to four or five, who saw the body, believed the existence of a fracture), viz., that the length, been roused to the manifold evils from its defective arrangement, deceased died of a fracture of the skull, and the sources from which they respecproduced by the wheel of a cart passing The great body of British over the heat ! ! ! ! who are excluded from their physicians These facts, for which I can vouch, need inherent rights in the College of Physicians, no comments ; it is scarcely possible to be- most respectfully submit that it is fitting to lieve, that in these times a coroner should inquire into the grounds of their rejection, be found, who would thus state to the jury and to enable them to assert their just that he had no power to order an inspec- claims to participate in its honours and tion of the body of a person whose death emoluments, and to promote the general may have been occasioned under suspicious interests of the profession. circumstances. Moreover it has since apYour Petitioners beg to state, that the peared, that the boy was knocked down " College or commonalty of the faculty of by one of the shafts, and that the contusion Physic sometimes denominated the Royal over the region of the liver was produced College of Physicians, was founded by Act by the ball of the wheel coming in contact of Parliament more than three hundred with him, and pressing him against the years ago, for several highly important wall. Query, Whence came the evidence of purposes. fracture of the brain, and of the wheel passAt first its affairs were managed agreeing over the head? ably to the charter, and it then fulfilled By inserting the above you will much the wise and benevolent intentions of the founder. Medical science was assiduously obJige your obedient servant, A MEDICAL REFORMER. cultivated, and meritorious practitioners
passed
over
witness,
a
the
body
woman,
or
swore
boy
proceeding tively spring.
Portsea, August 3, 1832.
liberally encouraged ; quacks were punish. ed, and the public, health was carefully ’
protected,