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1824 April 24
J.B. to Secy. Peel on Bodies for DissectionLetter II
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You did not mention I had no right it was not for me
to expect that you should mention who the professional men was
with whom on this occasion you communicated. If they were
no other than offic men placed by office or at the
head of the profession obvious, be they who they may, for I have not so much as guessed need I mention how imperatively weak
their claims as to confidence. By and office together
they have a think and speak under the influence of a particular
and sinister interest diametrically opposite to the interest of the
rest of mankind and in particular to that of the junior in
their own profession. For, if any of appropriate aptitude
in the knowledge information and consequent judgment and skill on the
part of the Juniors whose to the is the natural consequence to the
Seniors? What but loss of comparative reputation and !
Can it be necessary I should remind you of the
and but too successful exertion of leaders in both branches
of the Medical profession, for the sake of indirect benefit to themselves or the class of and to minimize
of appropriate aptitude on the part of students
thus producing, and without the smallest danger to so much as
to committing homicide not to say murder
upon a most extensive scale? The facts if they have
not already will ere long assuredly reach your ears.
passed such a length of time in this House
and those cabinets in which the quantity of social virtue on the most extensive
scale is uniformly declared to be in the direct ratio of
the of the person in question on all the conjunct scales of private
and but more particularly on that power, rank and opulence
and reputation that it would not be to be wondered at if
a mind even such as yours had been in this case borne along by
the strain of authority. For my own part 60 years of attentive
observation have confirmed me in the persuasion that to render the
proposition true the word inverse should be substituted to
the word direct.
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