A letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon : Relative to some conduct of the College of Physicians of London, posterior to the decision of the Court of King's Bench in the case of Dr. Stanger; and containing observations on a principal ground of that decision / by William Charles Wells.

  • Wells, William Charles, 1757-1817.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd Lord Kenyon : Relative to some conduct of the College of Physicians of London, posterior to the decision of the Court of King's Bench in the case of Dr. Stanger; and containing observations on a principal ground of that decision / by William Charles Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    foliciting their author to print his oration. Happy, however, would it have been for Dr. Latham, if their zeal to injure the moral cha- rafters of thofe, whom they denominated their enemies, had not blinded them to the danger, to which they were about to expofe the literary reputation of one of their deareft friends; if they had not by their own praifes fo fanned his defire for general applaufe, as to occafion his giving a work to the world, which fets at defiance every principle of tafle in compofition, and exhibits more than a fchool-boy’s ignorance of the com- mon language of the learned. The next public indication of the plan of the college to defame the affociated licentiates, (for I purpofely avoid mentioning any private proof of it) was furnifhed in April 1796, by Sir George Baker’s fwearing before your Lordfhip, that Dr. Stanger, upon being made a licentiate, had given his faith, or promife, that he would obey their flatutes. It now became clearly evi- dent to thofe, who had watched the conduft of the college, that they meant to urge this, among other arguments againft the claim of that gentle- man, that he was unworthy of admiffion into their body, from having, by his prefent applica- tion to the court, forfeited all title to confidence in his future declarations. No notice, indeed. was