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    trials and sufferings of humanity , is only equalled by the baleful influence of one who is ignorant , and inadequate to the work he professes to understand , and which he is constantly called

    upon to perform . Bodily pairi is hard to bear at any time , and when it is acute , it generally masters all other feelings , and renders life itself a weary load . But there is more than selfinterest at stake . Who that lives and feels , does not look

    round him at times with something like terror at the strength of his sympathy with others ; and as he is conscious of the power of the affections to sweeten his existence , does he not , even during their most perfect health , rejoice with trembling , while he thinks of the frail tenure by which he holds the

    objects most dear to him . Who would not feel a heavy load removed from his heart , if he could be made sure that , as long as human skill can avert the inevitable doom , so long he was certain he had it at command ; or suffer something like agony if he knew that when the trial should come , he must trust to

    chance , and might possibly see misdirected or inefficient efforts to save , blast his hopes and happiness for ever . But we need not suppose a case . There are few who have not gone through the experience ; few who have not at some time or other watched the bed of sickness and suffering . And those who know what it is to witness the gradual yielding of disease to the skilful remedies of real science , best know what it must be to find

    too late that fatal mistakes have been made ; and while utterl y unable to aid , or even to advise , to feel that nothing is leit them , but to watch the life they would give their own to save , fade away before their eyes . i Such thoughts as these—thoughts which lead into the Valley of the Shadow of Death" will press upon the mind at times * They have been forced upon us at the present moment by the able article on Medical Reform ' in the l London and

    Westminster Review , ' and we feel that to circulate the information it contains , is to render , according to our means , a good service to the community . We therefore intend to give those of our readers who may not have eeen the article itself , the power of appreciating the importance of its principles .

    It is a painful reflection that , in the present state of the medical profession , the instances of unnecessary bereavement to which we have alluded , must be of frequent occurrence , and must continue to be so uiitil the Legislature defend the

    community from incompetent medical practitioners . It is clear that it is the duty of the Legislature to protect the public in this instance , because it is one in which the public is not capable of protecting itself . No man can attempt to practise medicine * without inflicting dreadful evil , who has not acquired the requir site knowledge by going through the requisite discipline . Mo

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    Education and Practice . ? #

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/30/