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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    themselves in surgery more highly, they be¬ came willing to limit their attention to their own branch of the healing art, and to dismiss the care of the other departments to the physicians and apothecaries, thus giving up a large portion of the gains they might have made. But, notwithstanding this, Dr. Armstrong, with a freedom and a coarseness very ill becoming a member of the body he belongs to, accuses them of mercenary motives. He should not, when en¬ tering on such an inquiry, have been ignorant that the money they receive is not appropriated, and that new projects for the advancement of surgery are in contemplation. But in his zeal for the class of men he has associated himself with, he has concealed, or he has overlooked, the merits of the College of Surgeons ; for merit they, undoubtedly, have in the estimation of all men : the question is only to the degree ; but to give them no merit at all, betrays some wrong motive. It is not, however, surprising in the associate and supporter of the periodical paper we have had occasion to allude to, the sole object of which is, like one of the worst political libel¬ lers, to vilify every man who has attained emi¬ nence. The College of Surgeons, in assuming that name, have done much to raise themselves to the condition of a liberal and scientific body. They have received into their keeping the museum of Mr. Hunter, which was rejected by others.