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    The Fellows , thus morally trained , and having " found physic wherever they can / ' have had sufficient power to usurp many important advantages . The physicians of nearly all the hospitals in London belong to their body ; out of about thirty ,

    only from four to six are Licentiates . It is not surprising , therefore , to find that incompetent persons are appointed to these most important stations . Experienced physicians , not Fellows , have latterly been unwilling even to appear in the canvass , knowing the influence and power of the College . Nor is it surprising to learn that " the contrast between the

    knowledge afforded by the hospitals in London , and that accumulated and recorded by the greathospi tals in the other capitals of Europe , is truly humiliating ; " nor , that , " as schools of medicine , with all their capabilities , the London Hospitals are most defective . " The College , as it appears , has done nothing for science . Since its incorporation it has published but six volumes of ' Transactions / while in thirty years the Medico-Chirurgical

    Society has published eighteen , and those highly valuable . In its rharmacopceia , many of the most powerful medicines , long since introauced , are not to be found ! It has opposed all efforts at improvement by others ; such as the institution of the Apothecaries' Company , the Medico-Chirurgical Society , and the London University . When consulted by Government on important medical questions , it has sometimes given bad advice , sometimes none , and it has never moved in any great

    object for the improvement of knowledge . As an instance , it made no efforts towards carrying the Anatomy Bill . To all this it may be added , that the College takes large sums of money from physicians practising in London , under pretence of protecting them in the exercise of their profession—an

    object which it has no means of accomplishing . The College of Surgeons has not hesitated to follow the dull march of its more anti q uated prototype . Its affairs are under the control of a Council , twenty-one in number ; and it would be difficult to find a more complete exemplification of the spirit of monopoly than they have displayed . The members of the College of Surgeons amounted in 1834 to 9 , 270 . All but 100 are disqualified as members of Council by certain b y e-laws passed at different periods ; and , owing to the mode of election , even this small number is so much reduced , that the late

    President of the College , in answer to a question of the Committee , stated that " he believed , at the present moment , eight or ten gentlemen were qualified to be elected . " Out of 9 , 270 ! Yet this witness added , " he did not think the bye-laws and customs practically tended very much to limit the number of members out of whom a new member can be chosen \"

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    Education and Practice . 81

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/34/