ABSTRACT
The next point that troubles the Examiner's conscience is the " fragmentary medical skill" of the " persons" who are now to be examined. It is a little difficult to see how this scrupulous gentleman arrives at the conclusiun that those who have taken the full curriculum prescribed by a University are sure to be so much more Ignorant than the candidates he has previously examined, who may have complied but barely witli the more limited requirt:ments of the College of Surgeons. One would at least have thought that the best way of setting his mind at rest would have been to examine the "persons" in question, and find out the extent of their "fragtI!ents" of knowledge; but then this course might hardly have suited his ulterior, though less ostensible, objects, and, besides, it might actually have aided these most obnoxious" persons" to place their names on the Medical Register on the same terms as other people,"
