British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 45 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, Vol. 45 Why should the State interfere at all? What are the gravamina which its power is evoked to remove? (1) In the first place medical men have to complain that the profession is rendered less influential as a body, and its individual members lessened in social consideration, by the legalised admission into their flock of incompetent practitioners, who do not receive, because they do not deserve, the confidence of their countrymen. Let any of our readers go to a chemist´s shop in the artisans´ quarter of any large town after work hours, and the crowds paying cash for advice and medicine, which they might at will get either gratis or on credit, or for a very small sum, from a registered practitioner, will make him hang his head and sadly confess that the millions do not receive the present legal guarantee as any evidence of the capacity of a medical man. Dr. Heslop, of Birmingham, in a terribly suggestive pamphlet on "The realities of medical attendance on the sick children of the poor in large towns," gives the statistical details of an inquiry which he has conducted as to the means adopted by a consecutive series of 384 parents among the lower classes for relieving the ailments of their offspring. He found that nearly half had been without any advice at all, fifteen, or two fifths of the whole, had obtained it solely from a druggist or herbalist, and only forty-two had been to a medical man. At a colliery, in which the present writer was interested, a neighbouring practitioner of some standing, M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., London, L.S.A., was salaried to attend the underground hands. He enjoyed a sinecure; for a deputation from the gangs waited on the foreman and represented that the owner´s kindness was thrown away; since they preferred, when ill, to take their burnt skins or disordered stomachs to what they suggestively called "the regular bonesetter." The unregistered practitioner was evidently viewed in the West Riding as a more orthodox institution than his titled rival. Examples of this temper among the working masses will occur to every one, if he will temporarily remove from his eyes that bandage which esprit do corps has lovingly bound round them. In the case which is the subject of the last anecdote the contempt for the authorized adviser was quite unmerited; but when we read in Dr. Heslop´s pages "ignorance, recklessness, and hardness of heart," attributed to the established attendants on the labouring classes, we can easily understand the ill savour of the ointment, even though we should allow that no greater source of fetor than dead flies appear on the surface. The distrust generated by individual instances is reflected upon our whole body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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