A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual members of the Royal College of Surgeons / by a physician [John Armstrong], in a late Address.

  • Armstrong, John, 1784-1829.
Date:
1825
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Credit: A letter in refutation of the aspersions cast upon the Court of Assistants and individual members of the Royal College of Surgeons / by a physician [John Armstrong], in a late Address. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A LETTER, Sfc. fyc. To the Members of the Royal College of Surgeons. Gentlemen, One of your own body addresses you, to repel a most flagrant attack on the respectability of the profession,—r“ An Address to the Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, on the injurious Conduct made defective State of that Cor¬ poration to Professional Rights, Medical Science, and the Public Health.” This letter, by Dr. Armstrong, affects to be a complaint against the College of Surgeons; but I shall have no difficulty in refuting it, and also of showing that it is an injury to the profession at large, and that it has proceeded from a narrow and interested view of the subject. I would say, that the author proceeds on an erroneous prin- % ciple, but I fear there is more than this; that he is perversely and willingly in ignorance of what a 2