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NON-MEDICAL CORONERS.
NON.MEDICAL CORONERS.
629
Lcnn was surgeon of the Westminster Hos- the clause which we have extracted from the pital; Sir Astley Cooper was surgeon 01 Charter, that a surgeon of a provincial hosGuy’s Hospital, having also a nephew pital could not maintain an action against surgeon of that hospital, and another nephew the Council, for its refusal to receive his surgeon of St. "Thomas’s Hospital; and certificates? Who will contend that there Mr. Forster, although he had ceased to is no remedy at law, for such flagrant wrongs be surgeon of Guy’s Hospital, was still re- as we have here exposed? A fig for the control of the Council over cerving a portion of the fees paid by the students to the surgeons of that institution, any of our hospitals, whether metropolitan he having, indeed, a short time previously va- or provincial. The charter confers no such cated his office on that express condition. But the discussion of this quesThere was, also, Mr. Abernethy’s bond erc- tion we must defer till next week.
gagement
with Mr.
thousand
pounds for
Stanley,
of
privilege.
fourteen
the anatomical
chair,
and a thousand minor links in the chain off corruption which we need not notice.
0, spirit of monopoly, how hideous thou in all
ncious,
art
thy Protsean forms ! How avachilling to the ardour of the
pacity, the College of Surgeons,
ca-
a MEMBER
the Editor
of
THE DUBLIN MORNING
MR. EDITOR,—Possibly some of your legal readers will have the kindness to state, whether there be any recent alteration in the law in this country, which could authorise a coroner to return a verdict I am without the assistance of a jury. anxious for such information, from an occurrence which took place on Monday last, when a certain functionary directed the burial of a child, which was was found dead
lovers of science !Would either of these
Lave dared to say to
To
POST.
how
examiners, in his private and individual
NON-MEDICAL CORONERS.
of
you shall not lecture on surgery without the permission of my ?ievey or noodle at Guy’s Hospital?" Would either of them have said to a surin West Arran Street, without the sanction geon of the Bristol Hospital, 11 The certi- of the verdict of a jury as to the cause of ficates of attendance on the surgical practice death. The neighbourhood in which the found has become the resort of of your institution shall not be recognised, body was characters of the worst description; and it because you are incapable of instructing was on the steps of a cellar, under one of students. I admit that your hospital con. the public houses recently licensed there, that it was discovered. tains upwards of two hundred beds more Supposing that the infant bad not been than the Westminster, but your certificates murdered, (although the appearance of’the shall not be received." Not a man of them tongue, the eyes, &c., strongly indicated that it had,) yet, was there almost positive the have would challenged consequences of proof that a capital felony bad’been comYet from the mitted such insulting menaces. by the concealment of the birth, inportals of their Corporation, this is the lan- asmuch as that the body bore evidence that the child had been born alive-that its unguagewith which they have insulted the natural had not had the assistance of "
i
parent Surgeons of England, the language they have a midwife—and that it had been secreted addressed to the MEMBERS of their own until concealment was no longer possible. H. Had
College.
these
impudent monopolists
been stripped, tarred, feathered, and hooted This is only one amongst the many diserrors which have characterised through the streets, they would have suf- graceful the conduct of non-medical coroners. The fered no more than the just penalty incurred coroner, we understand, in this instance, is by them for their shameless violation of the a dealer in silks and satins. The greater rights and privileges of their professional folly was with those who appointed him to htthren. Who will contend, after reading his office.
629
Lcnn was surgeon of the Westminster Hos- the clause which we have extracted from the pital; Sir Astley Cooper was surgeon 01 Charter, that a surgeon of a provincial hosGuy’s Hospital, having also a nephew pital could not maintain an action against surgeon of that hospital, and another nephew the Council, for its refusal to receive his surgeon of St. "Thomas’s Hospital; and certificates? Who will contend that there Mr. Forster, although he had ceased to is no remedy at law, for such flagrant wrongs be surgeon of Guy’s Hospital, was still re- as we have here exposed? A fig for the control of the Council over cerving a portion of the fees paid by the students to the surgeons of that institution, any of our hospitals, whether metropolitan he having, indeed, a short time previously va- or provincial. The charter confers no such cated his office on that express condition. But the discussion of this quesThere was, also, Mr. Abernethy’s bond erc- tion we must defer till next week.
gagement
with Mr.
thousand
pounds for
Stanley,
of
privilege.
fourteen
the anatomical
chair,
and a thousand minor links in the chain off corruption which we need not notice.
0, spirit of monopoly, how hideous thou in all
ncious,
art
thy Protsean forms ! How avachilling to the ardour of the
pacity, the College of Surgeons,
ca-
a MEMBER
the Editor
of
THE DUBLIN MORNING
MR. EDITOR,—Possibly some of your legal readers will have the kindness to state, whether there be any recent alteration in the law in this country, which could authorise a coroner to return a verdict I am without the assistance of a jury. anxious for such information, from an occurrence which took place on Monday last, when a certain functionary directed the burial of a child, which was was found dead
lovers of science !Would either of these
Lave dared to say to
To
POST.
how
examiners, in his private and individual
NON-MEDICAL CORONERS.
of
you shall not lecture on surgery without the permission of my ?ievey or noodle at Guy’s Hospital?" Would either of them have said to a surin West Arran Street, without the sanction geon of the Bristol Hospital, 11 The certi- of the verdict of a jury as to the cause of ficates of attendance on the surgical practice death. The neighbourhood in which the found has become the resort of of your institution shall not be recognised, body was characters of the worst description; and it because you are incapable of instructing was on the steps of a cellar, under one of students. I admit that your hospital con. the public houses recently licensed there, that it was discovered. tains upwards of two hundred beds more Supposing that the infant bad not been than the Westminster, but your certificates murdered, (although the appearance of’the shall not be received." Not a man of them tongue, the eyes, &c., strongly indicated that it had,) yet, was there almost positive the have would challenged consequences of proof that a capital felony bad’been comYet from the mitted such insulting menaces. by the concealment of the birth, inportals of their Corporation, this is the lan- asmuch as that the body bore evidence that the child had been born alive-that its unguagewith which they have insulted the natural had not had the assistance of "
i
parent Surgeons of England, the language they have a midwife—and that it had been secreted addressed to the MEMBERS of their own until concealment was no longer possible. H. Had
College.
these
impudent monopolists
been stripped, tarred, feathered, and hooted This is only one amongst the many diserrors which have characterised through the streets, they would have suf- graceful the conduct of non-medical coroners. The fered no more than the just penalty incurred coroner, we understand, in this instance, is by them for their shameless violation of the a dealer in silks and satins. The greater rights and privileges of their professional folly was with those who appointed him to htthren. Who will contend, after reading his office.