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right those privileges which at present various departments of the medical and surgical profession, the only safe alternaonly yielded by caprice or courtesy. In a future letter vour attention will be tive which the Commissioners can adopt, directed to other instances of misrule, by appears to me to be either to confine the Sir, your obedient servant, practice of surgery and medicine to the DOUGLAS COHEN, M.D. members of one of the Royal Colleges of Swansea, April 14th. Surgeons in Great Britain, as far as regards the parochial poor, or to appoint a surgeon and an apothecary to every paor union of parishes in England and SURGEONS AND APOTHECARIES. rish
of
are
To tlee Editor
Wales. I am much concerned to find that the
LANCET,
of TIiE LANCET. Commissioners are sanctioning parish contracts for medical and surgical assistthe 603rd ?. of THE SIR,—In I have read with surprise a corriespon- ance for the parochial poor; such contracts dence between Mr. Barnett of Farring- having been almost invariably found laton, Berks, and the Poor-Law Commis- mentably injurious to humanity as well as sioners, from which it appears that the to science. Were the establishment of latter have been induced to admit those small infirmaries united with dispensaries who have no other title to practise the on an extensive scale, enforced or encoudifferent branches of the profession, than raged in every market town by the legisI the license of the Apothecaries’ Company, lature, parish contracts may be immedias candidates for the office of ately rendered illegal, and the competition well educated and honourable practigeon. In allowing Mr. Barnett to himself, after an apprenticeship to a sur- tioners to discharge gratuitottsly the produties of such charities would geon in extensive practice in London, although not a member of the College of raise the character of provincial surgery, Surgeons, the Commissioners have proba- and greatly reduce parochial expenditure. bly departed from a salutary regulation I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. MILMAN COLEY. with propriety ; but were theyto permit all the Licentiates of the Company of Bridgnorth, April 14, 1835. Apothecaries, merely by virtue of their This letter opens so wide a field for license, to enter into competition remark, and a discussion of the points of members of any of the Royal Colleges of law which the subject necessarily emfor requiring will occupy so much of our space, -surgical knowledge, and to authorize the that we must publish the letter this week successful apothecaries to practise surcomment. In the next LANCET gery indiscriminately on the parochial we will advert to the topics which it emL. poor, they would beas acting in open defiance of the law, expounded by our ablest judges, and with the grossest inhuCUTANEOUS INCRUSTATIONS.—NOTE and injustice towards the unformanity tunate paupers placed under their care. FROM MR. PLUMBE.—To the Editor.— The course of education required by the SIR,—Allow me to correct a statement Worshipful Company, neither includes ar which has been made (no doubt inadby Mr. W. B. Dickinson, in apprenticeship to a surgeon, nor attend. I think, howance on the surgical practice of any public No. 606 of THE LANCET. institution; and their license only entitles ever, that inadvertence is no excuse for their licentiates to exercise the art an( the error of either who is wrong. Mr. mustery of an apothecary. that is a com. says, that neither Alibert, Biet, pounder of medicines. Should, therefore, nor Mr. Rayer, considers the form which any overseer or guardian of the poor ap- the diseased secretions, the scab, scale, or point an apothecary to undertake the ma- pimple, may "assume, in cutaneous "disnual operations or other duties of surgery, eases, as a characteristic feature of without having undergone an examination cutaneous disease, thus briefly contradictby, and obtained a diploma from, one of ing my assertion on this point. the Colleges of Surgeons in Great Britain, Will Mr. D. inform me how the Baron and death should be the result of any surto adopt the designation " Teigne gical operation or treatment undertaken Amiantacee*," or the asbestos form of the and exercised by the said apothecary, such overseer or guardian would he liable to an * The Asbestos Teigne obtains its name from indictment for every misfortune, in con! hair, so as to for m a striking resemblance to that sequence of this illegal appointment. The Granulated 1’ei-ne," from the In the present state of the law, and ofsubstance. resemblance of the dried hillocks of’3cabs to broken the artificial and barbarous division of the , mortar, falling down in granules."
parish-surofferof
I fessional
with!
Surgeons
appointments,
braces without
braces.—ED.
vertently)
Dickinson
came
thesilvery scalesbecoming interwovenwith the "
right those privileges which at present various departments of the medical and surgical profession, the only safe alternaonly yielded by caprice or courtesy. In a future letter vour attention will be tive which the Commissioners can adopt, directed to other instances of misrule, by appears to me to be either to confine the Sir, your obedient servant, practice of surgery and medicine to the DOUGLAS COHEN, M.D. members of one of the Royal Colleges of Swansea, April 14th. Surgeons in Great Britain, as far as regards the parochial poor, or to appoint a surgeon and an apothecary to every paor union of parishes in England and SURGEONS AND APOTHECARIES. rish
of
are
To tlee Editor
Wales. I am much concerned to find that the
LANCET,
of TIiE LANCET. Commissioners are sanctioning parish contracts for medical and surgical assistthe 603rd ?. of THE SIR,—In I have read with surprise a corriespon- ance for the parochial poor; such contracts dence between Mr. Barnett of Farring- having been almost invariably found laton, Berks, and the Poor-Law Commis- mentably injurious to humanity as well as sioners, from which it appears that the to science. Were the establishment of latter have been induced to admit those small infirmaries united with dispensaries who have no other title to practise the on an extensive scale, enforced or encoudifferent branches of the profession, than raged in every market town by the legisI the license of the Apothecaries’ Company, lature, parish contracts may be immedias candidates for the office of ately rendered illegal, and the competition well educated and honourable practigeon. In allowing Mr. Barnett to himself, after an apprenticeship to a sur- tioners to discharge gratuitottsly the produties of such charities would geon in extensive practice in London, although not a member of the College of raise the character of provincial surgery, Surgeons, the Commissioners have proba- and greatly reduce parochial expenditure. bly departed from a salutary regulation I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. MILMAN COLEY. with propriety ; but were theyto permit all the Licentiates of the Company of Bridgnorth, April 14, 1835. Apothecaries, merely by virtue of their This letter opens so wide a field for license, to enter into competition remark, and a discussion of the points of members of any of the Royal Colleges of law which the subject necessarily emfor requiring will occupy so much of our space, -surgical knowledge, and to authorize the that we must publish the letter this week successful apothecaries to practise surcomment. In the next LANCET gery indiscriminately on the parochial we will advert to the topics which it emL. poor, they would beas acting in open defiance of the law, expounded by our ablest judges, and with the grossest inhuCUTANEOUS INCRUSTATIONS.—NOTE and injustice towards the unformanity tunate paupers placed under their care. FROM MR. PLUMBE.—To the Editor.— The course of education required by the SIR,—Allow me to correct a statement Worshipful Company, neither includes ar which has been made (no doubt inadby Mr. W. B. Dickinson, in apprenticeship to a surgeon, nor attend. I think, howance on the surgical practice of any public No. 606 of THE LANCET. institution; and their license only entitles ever, that inadvertence is no excuse for their licentiates to exercise the art an( the error of either who is wrong. Mr. mustery of an apothecary. that is a com. says, that neither Alibert, Biet, pounder of medicines. Should, therefore, nor Mr. Rayer, considers the form which any overseer or guardian of the poor ap- the diseased secretions, the scab, scale, or point an apothecary to undertake the ma- pimple, may "assume, in cutaneous "disnual operations or other duties of surgery, eases, as a characteristic feature of without having undergone an examination cutaneous disease, thus briefly contradictby, and obtained a diploma from, one of ing my assertion on this point. the Colleges of Surgeons in Great Britain, Will Mr. D. inform me how the Baron and death should be the result of any surto adopt the designation " Teigne gical operation or treatment undertaken Amiantacee*," or the asbestos form of the and exercised by the said apothecary, such overseer or guardian would he liable to an * The Asbestos Teigne obtains its name from indictment for every misfortune, in con! hair, so as to for m a striking resemblance to that sequence of this illegal appointment. The Granulated 1’ei-ne," from the In the present state of the law, and ofsubstance. resemblance of the dried hillocks of’3cabs to broken the artificial and barbarous division of the , mortar, falling down in granules."
parish-surofferof
I fessional
with!
Surgeons
appointments,
braces without
braces.—ED.
vertently)
Dickinson
came
thesilvery scalesbecoming interwovenwith the "