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317 Bcate of dulness will be the College diploma, into the preponderating scale of his own until it can be obtained for nothing. Ile wealthier apprentice. Such a compact it dwells with peculiar complacency on his were a virtue even in Sir BV. to violate : it friend’s wearing a blue riband, and, chuck- was a cousin german to the bond business of lingwith delight, demands if that savoured Bartholomew’s. I am, Sir, your obedient of fear: certainly not, but it savoured servant, T. strongly of folly, and was about as good a November November 7, 1830. 1830. proof of independence as Malvolio’s cross garters or yellow stockings. Mr. Richards modestly suppresses the description of his Who can be at a loss in own decoration. conjecturing what should adorn the summit COLLEGIATE AVARICE. of Mr. Headington’s apologist1 What best befits the brows of Mr. Richards I have already decided : if, however,-unlike that To the Editor of THE LANCET. quadruped whose longitude of ear compen- ! SIR,—II am one of ten simpletons who, on sates for the brevity of his caudal appendthe 11th of this present month of Friday shoutd desire equallty .November, age,-the gentleman presented themselves for pluckof honours for botli his extremities, I For the at the College of Surgeons. ing spectfully suggest, that as his crest is a cap illumination of future pigeons, allow me to and bells, his motto, or tail-piece, may be, inform them how, and in what manner, the " Sense,’ speech, and measure, living tongues, farce called Examination commences. The and dead, scene opens, not with an anatomical quesLet all gh e way, and Richards may be read." tion, not with a surgical inquiry, not with I remain Sir, your faithful servant, an attempt to fathom the physiology of the WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WALFORD. examinee ; but a request to be informed Nov. 20th, 1830. " wlaether he has his money with him, wlaether it is in paper or gold ? " 1 was so disgusted with this abominable solicitude for their extortionate fees, that had it not been the desire of my friends that SIR WILLIAM BLIZARD. I should become a member of their miscalled college, I would have demanded my To the Editor of THE LANCET. certificates, rejected their examination, and mortified the vultures by taking away my SIR,—I would ask the benevolent gentle- notes or gold." I am, &c., man who wrote the letter inserted, at page A MEMBER OF THE he excludes of 209 your 375 th number, why OF SURGEONS. COLLEGE Sir W. Blizard from the benefit of his excnl-
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[This communication has been properly of Sir W. has done nothing in the authenticated.—ED. L.] course of a reasonably long life which was not worthy of the knight himself! I bear Sir W. no more love than does the ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—CIGAR Samaritan who has thus puured oil and wine SMOKING. into the wounds of Mr. Headington, yet I should be sorry to add to the burden of the knight’s offences, by suffering him to remain To the Editor of THE LANCET. undefended from ttie imputation of wrongthe gentleman so feelingly alluded to as SIR.—That your very valuable publicaing " the young man who was ill-used by the tion, THE LANCET, has produced many esBlizards." The facts are these. On the retire- sential reformations in ourpfofession every ment of Mr. Thomas Blizard, the most one must allow, nor is it my wish to gainsay accomplished surgeon the London Hospital it ; but as a student of Bartholomew’s Hosever boasted, or probably will again, for one rital, I trust you will allow me to make a generation at least, Messrs. Headington and few remarks on the letter of a person subFrampton claimed the performance of a con- scribing himself " A Pupil," inserted in the tract in favour of the latter, which Number of this week. honourable gentlemen had entered into to On his " ars scribendi" I shall make no down that merit would comment, giving the numerous readers of " flap new-fledged rise," and secure the return of Mr. Head- your excellent hebdomadal publication, ei-eington’s partner as surgeon to the hospital. tlit for some judgment in discriminating beSir W. took slame to himself for engaging tween the usually elegant compositions in to render all competition fruitless, and dis- THE LANCET, aud the letter now before interestedly threw the weight of his interest me, which in my opinion is a disgrace to a
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and a foul blot on the hitherto) hospital. Mr. Lawrence justly observed, unsullied pages of your Journal. that the rules of good breeding and civilized The gentlemen who are there accused off society alike demanded that those who mcere partial to smoking should forego that smoking in the theatre, are many of them f " pleasure " for the short period of one hour men of the first respectability-old pupils of the hospital, and esteemed by those who) in the twentv-four, rather than offend those have the pleasure of their acquaintance.to whom the practice might be objectionThe theatre (especially lately) has beeniable. For the manner in which this goodvery offensive, on the return of the studentstempered observation was received by the from their dinner, attributable to the stateclass, I may fairly conclude that the ob. of the bodies used at the anatomical lee" habit will be discontinued. As my letter was written in a moment of irrita. ture; cigars have, therefore, been introduced by some, and as I said before, by tion, I am willing to admit that 1 expressed many of the most respectable in the hospi- myself in terms not altogether appropriate. tal. A most offensive thing certainly ! A Nothing can be further from my intention person whose acquaintance they would than to cast any imputation upon the cliahave shrunk from, takes up his pen-per- racters of my brother students, or to call in haps in the vety place which he accuses question their claims to the rank of gentle. these men of patronising—" a London pot- men. In a word, I am proud of being a house," and wiites a letter, in which he member of the St. Bartholomew’sclass, abuses them as certain puppies,"-men which for number, talent, industry, and re. whose shoes he would willingly blacken is not surpassed. i be admitted to their societvI am, Sir, Your obedient servant, As I am convinced that this letter was written in a vindictive spirit by the author, A PUPIL. Nov. 25, 1830. I am sure you will insert this reply ; and in conclusion, I beg’ permission to ask you and your readers a few questions :1st. Is it consistent with the usual character of Mr. Lawrence, to give ‘° a hint?" MENDICANT MEDICAL IMPOSTOR. Would he not, as a man and gentleman, have desired its discontinuance? 2d. Do you think that had Mr. Lawrence To the Editor of THE LANCET. expressed such a wish, the students, and those too his own pupils, would have conSIR,—The caution which you gave in one tinued the practice? of your late Numbers against the artifices 3d. Why did not this reformer come a medical man of the name, or assumed boldly forward, and, as a gentleman, men- name, of Villiers, who is going about the tion Mr. Lawrence’s dislike to it-if he country levying contributions, aod living on could do so consistently with truth ? i the profession, I am sorry to say reached As this notice has not produced the me too late to prevent my being gutted by effects desired by the author, or Jusinso- his plausible stories. lence excited any feeling in men so supeThe said Villiers said he lived at Bath, or rior to him, except contempt, I would ad- was going thither ; appears to be between vise him, as the only recompense he can thirtv and forty years of age. middlemake to your offended readers, to attempt sized, with an unhealthy complexion ; says another letter, apologetical for the abuse ’, he is subject to scirrhous or contracted recand ungentlemauly feeling expressed in his tum ; tells a plausible tale with the most last. moving and lachrymose accent; carries with I am, Sir, him extracts from THE LANCET, and docuYour most obedient servant, ments recommending his case, carefully AN OLD PUPIL preserved in a leathern case, as well as a of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. long and respectable list of subscribers aud contributors to a very considerable amount, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1830. to alleviate his alleged distresses, some of whom have been dead for years. ’, I think it would be well to caution your CIGAR SMOKING. readers once more againat the scandalous exactions practised by this unworthy member. To the Editor of TIlE LANCET. I remain yours, SIR,—After Mr. Lawrence had concluded A CONSTANT READER. his lecture last night, he made a few welltimed and judicious remarks upon the prac[We regret that our correspondent 183 tice of cigar-smoking in the theatre of the omitted his address,—ED. L.]
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[This communication has been properly of Sir W. has done nothing in the authenticated.—ED. L.] course of a reasonably long life which was not worthy of the knight himself! I bear Sir W. no more love than does the ST. BARTHOLOMEW’S HOSPITAL.—CIGAR Samaritan who has thus puured oil and wine SMOKING. into the wounds of Mr. Headington, yet I should be sorry to add to the burden of the knight’s offences, by suffering him to remain To the Editor of THE LANCET. undefended from ttie imputation of wrongthe gentleman so feelingly alluded to as SIR.—That your very valuable publicaing " the young man who was ill-used by the tion, THE LANCET, has produced many esBlizards." The facts are these. On the retire- sential reformations in ourpfofession every ment of Mr. Thomas Blizard, the most one must allow, nor is it my wish to gainsay accomplished surgeon the London Hospital it ; but as a student of Bartholomew’s Hosever boasted, or probably will again, for one rital, I trust you will allow me to make a generation at least, Messrs. Headington and few remarks on the letter of a person subFrampton claimed the performance of a con- scribing himself " A Pupil," inserted in the tract in favour of the latter, which Number of this week. honourable gentlemen had entered into to On his " ars scribendi" I shall make no down that merit would comment, giving the numerous readers of " flap new-fledged rise," and secure the return of Mr. Head- your excellent hebdomadal publication, ei-eington’s partner as surgeon to the hospital. tlit for some judgment in discriminating beSir W. took slame to himself for engaging tween the usually elegant compositions in to render all competition fruitless, and dis- THE LANCET, aud the letter now before interestedly threw the weight of his interest me, which in my opinion is a disgrace to a
patory endeavours, seeing that the worthy
colleague
thes
318
and a foul blot on the hitherto) hospital. Mr. Lawrence justly observed, unsullied pages of your Journal. that the rules of good breeding and civilized The gentlemen who are there accused off society alike demanded that those who mcere partial to smoking should forego that smoking in the theatre, are many of them f " pleasure " for the short period of one hour men of the first respectability-old pupils of the hospital, and esteemed by those who) in the twentv-four, rather than offend those have the pleasure of their acquaintance.to whom the practice might be objectionThe theatre (especially lately) has beeniable. For the manner in which this goodvery offensive, on the return of the studentstempered observation was received by the from their dinner, attributable to the stateclass, I may fairly conclude that the ob. of the bodies used at the anatomical lee" habit will be discontinued. As my letter was written in a moment of irrita. ture; cigars have, therefore, been introduced by some, and as I said before, by tion, I am willing to admit that 1 expressed many of the most respectable in the hospi- myself in terms not altogether appropriate. tal. A most offensive thing certainly ! A Nothing can be further from my intention person whose acquaintance they would than to cast any imputation upon the cliahave shrunk from, takes up his pen-per- racters of my brother students, or to call in haps in the vety place which he accuses question their claims to the rank of gentle. these men of patronising—" a London pot- men. In a word, I am proud of being a house," and wiites a letter, in which he member of the St. Bartholomew’sclass, abuses them as certain puppies,"-men which for number, talent, industry, and re. whose shoes he would willingly blacken is not surpassed. i be admitted to their societvI am, Sir, Your obedient servant, As I am convinced that this letter was written in a vindictive spirit by the author, A PUPIL. Nov. 25, 1830. I am sure you will insert this reply ; and in conclusion, I beg’ permission to ask you and your readers a few questions :1st. Is it consistent with the usual character of Mr. Lawrence, to give ‘° a hint?" MENDICANT MEDICAL IMPOSTOR. Would he not, as a man and gentleman, have desired its discontinuance? 2d. Do you think that had Mr. Lawrence To the Editor of THE LANCET. expressed such a wish, the students, and those too his own pupils, would have conSIR,—The caution which you gave in one tinued the practice? of your late Numbers against the artifices 3d. Why did not this reformer come a medical man of the name, or assumed boldly forward, and, as a gentleman, men- name, of Villiers, who is going about the tion Mr. Lawrence’s dislike to it-if he country levying contributions, aod living on could do so consistently with truth ? i the profession, I am sorry to say reached As this notice has not produced the me too late to prevent my being gutted by effects desired by the author, or Jusinso- his plausible stories. lence excited any feeling in men so supeThe said Villiers said he lived at Bath, or rior to him, except contempt, I would ad- was going thither ; appears to be between vise him, as the only recompense he can thirtv and forty years of age. middlemake to your offended readers, to attempt sized, with an unhealthy complexion ; says another letter, apologetical for the abuse ’, he is subject to scirrhous or contracted recand ungentlemauly feeling expressed in his tum ; tells a plausible tale with the most last. moving and lachrymose accent; carries with I am, Sir, him extracts from THE LANCET, and docuYour most obedient servant, ments recommending his case, carefully AN OLD PUPIL preserved in a leathern case, as well as a of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. long and respectable list of subscribers aud contributors to a very considerable amount, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1830. to alleviate his alleged distresses, some of whom have been dead for years. ’, I think it would be well to caution your CIGAR SMOKING. readers once more againat the scandalous exactions practised by this unworthy member. To the Editor of TIlE LANCET. I remain yours, SIR,—After Mr. Lawrence had concluded A CONSTANT READER. his lecture last night, he made a few welltimed and judicious remarks upon the prac[We regret that our correspondent 183 tice of cigar-smoking in the theatre of the omitted his address,—ED. L.]
gentleman,
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