Medical Reform

The subject of Medical Reform is one of such vast extent, as well as of such deep importance, that we confess we approach it with the greatest diffidence. To draw up a scheme for re-casting the practice of physic throughout the British empire would require so profound a knowledge, not merely of professional minutiae, but of human nature itself, that we shrink from the task; and, instead therefore of proposing some plan for a medical millennium fire-new from the mint of our imagination, we shall content ourselves with mentioning a few among the defects of the present system, together with such remedies as reason, the instincts of society, and justice?good-humoured justice, seem to demand.