The new Test act: a recent conspiracy against the medical practitioners of homoeopathy and the public; by the College of Physicians and the Faculty of Medicine: considered in a letter to the patrons of the University of Edinburgh / by an alumnus.

  • Alumnus.
Date:
1851
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Credit: The new Test act: a recent conspiracy against the medical practitioners of homoeopathy and the public; by the College of Physicians and the Faculty of Medicine: considered in a letter to the patrons of the University of Edinburgh / by an alumnus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE NEW TEST ACT, t My Lord Provost and Gentlemen, Few of you can have lived in such happy seclusion, as to have heard nothing of the medical disturbances which every now and then arise to agitate our quiet city. Justly or unjustly, the Medical Profession has the reputation of being wonderfully prolific of quarrels, and of indulging in a virulence of recrimination on such occasions, from which most others deem themselves debarred by con- siderations of propriety. I have thus prefaced my statement, only to assure you that the matters I have now to bring under your notice are quite of another sort; otherwise, not being of that pro- fession, I should not have felt called upon to meddle in the business. What I have now to direct your attention to appears to me, and I think will appear to many, at least, if not all, of you, to be of great public importance to the community and to the Uni- versity; and I feel so sure of an open ear as to everything which touches the welfare of an institution so especially bound up with many of our dearest recollections, that I shall use no entreaties or aiguments in order to obtain from you a patient hearing. It is now matter of notoriety that the Eoyal College of Phy- sicians of Edinburgh has pledged itself, and each of its assenting members, to have no dealings with certain of its own Fellows, or with any other physicians, although also Graduates of our Uni- versity , who agree in observing a doctrine and practice in medicine generally known as the Homoeopathic. It is true that these reso- lutions (which I shall quote in an Appendix) state no reasons for thus putting the Medical Practitioners of Homoeopathy beyond the