Medical reform a social question, comprehensively studied with the light of philosophy, history, and common sense : two letters to the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston / by Joseph Sampson Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, Sampson, 1828-1886.
Date:
1857
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    your Lordship so to influence our fortunes that our footing shall be secured in the State, as a body of intelligent and useful men •—our body is, we grieve to think, plagued with sundry sores and decaying branches; but if we be permitted to sap truth in proportion as we thirst for it, to grow unfettered in the full light of day, we know as one of the truths of our profession,—the sores will heal, and the decayed branches fall off. The progress must be a slow one, all great and good works advance slowly; all we desire is that ours be allowed to advance untrammelled by bad laws : only aided by Parliament, when that august Assembly shall deem us deserving of such aid, in such manner, as really to benefit us as a part of the nation. In addressing you for students of medicine generally, I have some precedents. I am fairly known to students, they have often honored me with confidence, always have they befriended me: and as I have expressed their thoughts—our common wants—I confide firmly in their sup- port:—they may be relied on. If the principles here struggled for be ever in peril, Joseph Lister and Benjamin W. Richardson, you will defend them ;—Capei ed Ercolani per la fe nostra smen- tirete la mendacia;—oh, disciples de l’Ancienne Academie de Chirurgie, de lAcademie de Lapeyronie, de Louis, de Petit, de cette cohorte d’i mmortels qui furent une famille, jusqu’a ce que