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    unprofessional person is capable of judging whether thiskaoww ledge has been acquired , bat the Legislature can provide for it With ease , "by investing competent persons with the requisite authority for the control of the schools of medicine and the government of the medical body / ' The Legislature has already " interfered by appointing chartered bodies for the regulation of

    the faculty , but the spirit in which they have executed thei * trust has now become so notoriously bad , that a loud and increasing demand for their reformation has induced the ap * pointment of a committee to examine into the manner in which the authority intrusted to them has been exercised , and to investigate the state of medical education . This demand for inquiry and improvement has originated in the profession

    itself ; a circumstance highly honourable to it ; for , except in that enlarged sense , whereby self-interest is understood to mean the real advance of individuals in truth and knowledge , it is the community only which is interested in medical reform * Considered as a body , the profession is sure of employment , whether it advance in science or not . Indeed , on the principle

    © f BrSangrado ,, when he prayed God "for a sickly season /' they would be more cunning to leave things a 3 they are ; or still beltter , to resort , like him , to " bleeding and warm water , " with % hl 0 additional . manoeuvre of giving the latter a colour to match the ' patient pocket of the sufferer *

    The report of the evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons has been printed , and contains a full account of the . proceedings of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons , and the Society of Apothecaries , the three chartered todies which have been appointed at different periods for the government of the medical faculty . The witnesses examined comprise all the names most eminent in the profession , and theyHre agreed , without a single exception , upon the nattife and extent of the education necessary as a qualification for its

    successful practice . They unanimously assert that the study of physiology , or the science of the fabric of life , must be based on a knowledge of physics , and enlarged by a most serious consideration of the nature a « d properties of tnifrd . The grounds dn which this opinion rests are condensed into a few lines by the writer in the ' London Review : '—

    -1 " Tfo phtpin a real practical knowledge of the structure and function ? of $ ie body , requires a larger range of information than is obvious at first vJfcW . ' T * h $ human body is a complex machine , in the construction pf which physical , chemical , and vital principles are so combined arid Mended , that it is utterly impossible to obtain even so much as a gHmpge Of tho real nature of one set of functions ( the vital , for example ) without af previoug knowledge of the other set , the chemical ; not cart the chemical processes be understood without a precise and accurate acquaint-

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    fS Reform in the Medical

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/31/