Pub Date : 1852-07-21DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.15.379
cordially for the kindness and attention with which you have listened to my address. I should not have consented to occupy the honourable position in which I have this day been placed, had I not felt, as I said at the commencement, that I should have the kind assistance of Mr. Martin. I trust that I may have many like opportunities of meeting my professional brethren, for no one I can assure you feels more than I do the truth of the words of Harvey that I have just quoted, " that these meetings tend to the honour of theprqfession, and cause us to continue mutually in love."
{"title":"Foreign Department","authors":"","doi":"10.1136/bmj.s1-16.15.379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.s1-16.15.379","url":null,"abstract":"cordially for the kindness and attention with which you have listened to my address. I should not have consented to occupy the honourable position in which I have this day been placed, had I not felt, as I said at the commencement, that I should have the kind assistance of Mr. Martin. I trust that I may have many like opportunities of meeting my professional brethren, for no one I can assure you feels more than I do the truth of the words of Harvey that I have just quoted, \" that these meetings tend to the honour of theprqfession, and cause us to continue mutually in love.\"","PeriodicalId":20791,"journal":{"name":"Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1852-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91436514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1852-07-21DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.15.384
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/BMJ.S1-16.14.355-A
John Hatton
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.14.338
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.14.355
H. M. Davison
To the Editors of the ProvincialMedical and Surgical Journal. GENTLEMEN,-The above subject has long and seriously occupied the professional mind of this country, and is assuming a fresh importance week by week, both among the periodicals and various Sacieties throughout England, on acconnt of the evils which do arise from the want of corporate government. Under theqe circumstances would you permit me to suggest, that it would be well if some of the older and more influential of our body would turn their attention immediately to the subject, and propose some feasible remedy for such evils at the forthcoming annual meeting at Oxford. I am aware that a proposition for a Medical Reform Bill will then be submitted by the Council to the Association, which will deal with the heavier grievances under which we all labour; but there are many minor ones which that Bill would never reach, and it is to these I would now draw attention. It is clear to everbody that the profession is always increasing in members, and that there is no guarantee that they shall all be honourable men, and kept honourable, but that in the heat of the race each one is left to his own discretion, to benefit himself, or damage his neighbour, by whatsoever means he thinks fit. It may be true that persons of downright bad character are comparatively rare amongst us, and that we exhibit as a whole a very noble combination of talent, learning, honour, benevolence, and truth.; but still the above state of things ought not to exist, especially when we know that one bad man is enough to sow discord amongst many good ones, and tlhat, as a matter of fact, even the most eminenit and most amiable among,st us are apt to fall out, and to rermain alienated from each other, because their sense of pride-or dignity, if you will, will not permit them to make the first advances to reconciliation, and also because there is no proper medium through which such desirable reconciliation may be effected. Now, what I would propose, and what some gentlemen of greater age and influence might readily carry out, or at least lay the foundation of, at the meeting of the Association, is a scheme by which the Council might appoint boards of umpires within each convenient district to whom all differences amongst members might be submitted for arbitration. Although such institutions could affect the members of the Association alone in a direct manner, yet, indirectly, they would exercise a very wholesome influence on the entire profession, and be an excellent temporary substitute for that more universal corporate goveinmnent which must, sooner or later, prevail amongst us. There are some offences that should, and, I am informed will soon be positively uncompromisable asad penal; such as, firstly, the semi or extra-professional offence of adventuring to practise without any legal diploma at all; secondly, the fraudulent assumption of additional titles and honors by certain members of the profession, obviously with the vi
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.14.340
contributions, but here again there is no little difficulty in avoiding both Sylla and Charybdis, since we have found on more than one occasion that fault has been found, (and we have no doubt arising from real injury in a limited circle, to the extension of the Association,) with our refusing admission to articles unfit for the pages of a medical periodical or in some cases for any periodical at all. We are well aware that it is impossible to please all parties, and that in the exercise of our duties we cannot possibly avoid wounding the amour proproe of some, but we can conscientiously affirm that we never exceeded what we thought our duty, and we can with thankfulness recal many instances in which the contributors themselves have most handsomely admitted the truth of our objection. Still there are reasons for the admission of many articles, which perhaps the Editor of an independent Journal would reject, but when it is considered that the promotion ofjournalism is not the sole object of the Association, but that it can only be usefully carried on by making all its several purposes run on smoothly, pari passu, we think we have exercised a sound discretion in sometimes sacrificing the interests of the Journal to those of the Association at large, and from many years' experience of the working of the two, we are quite confident, that whoever conducts the one without reference to the other, will irreparably injure the whole cause, and put a stop at once, not only to the progress of the Journal, but to the Association itself.
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.14.337
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Pub Date : 1852-07-07DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.14.354
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Pub Date : 1852-06-23DOI: 10.1136/BMJ.S1-16.13.325
R. D. Grainger
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Pub Date : 1852-06-23DOI: 10.1136/bmj.s1-16.13.323
This paper is an epitome of the History of the Introduction and Progress of Vaccination into Bengal," compiled principally from the reports successively published by the Suiperintendents-General of Vaccination, in Bengal-Messrs. Shoolbred, Cameron, and Stewart. The periods intervening between the dates of publication, comprise so many epochs in the history of this very interesting subject, beginning with the first notice nearly half a century ago, in 1804, by Dr. Shoolbred, continuing to the year 1829, the date of Mr. Cameron's report, and to that of 1843-44, when Dr. Stewart, the present Superintendent-General of Vaccination, presented his first report to the Government of Bengal. A late and second report, published by Dr. Stewart, has furnished the author of the paper with materials for adding a supplement, which brings down the account of vaccination in Bengal to the year 1850. The history of vaccination in Bengal furnishes reasons rather for painful commentary than for hearty congratulation on the introduction to our eastern possessions of the greatest boon which science has yet conferred on mankind, and for deep regret that a boon above all price, should have been virtually rejected by our Indian fellow-subjects, through ignorance and prejudice. Vaccination may be said to have been virtually rejected by the inhabitants of Bengal as a community, notwithstanding the desire and endeavours of the present rulers of India to introduce this inestimable blessing into the countries subject to their rule, placing it within every man's reach, notwithstanding the unwearied zeal and exertions of their medical officers to carry out the purpose of their directors, and notwithstanding the advantages of accepting it being so obvious, and the dangers incident to its rejection so appalling. Half a century has nearly elapsed since its first introduction, and still we hear of severe and fatal visitations of epidemic small-pox causing as much havoc in Calcutta as it does in any unprotected population or community. It does not appear that the natives of Bengal could have had any disinclination to adopt inoculation, which seems to have been practised from time immemorial, though the worship of the Goddess Situlh, who specially presides over small-pox, is general in Bengal, and some of her devotees are so bigoted that they refuse the protection of inoculation until one of their families falls a victim to variola, when they imagine the Divinity is propitiated by the sacrifice. Inoculation seems the universal practice throughout Bengal and the provinces subordinate to it, and is one of the chief obstacles to the reception of vaccination. Dr. Finch mentions several obstacles to the successful introduction of vaccination irn India, among them the chief are:-1. The dislike of the Hindoos to any innovation. 2. Their apathy or indifference to distant danger. 3. The practice of inoculation for small-pox. 4. Climate, which for one half of the year is unfavourable to vaccinat
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