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surrendered, are scarcely, I fear, ever fully re- 

 gained. No one, however, who does not com- 

 pletely possess them, is surely fit to constitute a 

 part of the sanctuary of honour and good faith. 



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that they might be kept out, as far as in them lay, from all 

 patients where they should be proposed, and themselves 

 brought in," &c. The college of Physicians, therefore, a 

 hundred years ago, were surely not the sanctuary of honour 

 and good faith ; since one part of them were then declared 

 by their colleagues to have violated every obligation of ho- 

 nour and conscience in pursuit of their private interest j while 

 those, who had thus erected themselves into censors of mo- 

 rals, openly confessed, that they were afraid to have ft known 

 they were doing a right thing, lest they should not be called 

 in by apothecaries to see their patients. Physicians, in ge- 

 neral, have in the course of the present century become more 

 prudent, and, I believe, more honourable j but it is, not- 

 withstanding, very notorious, that many of them at present 

 cultivate the acquaintance of apothecaries, in ways very 

 disreputable to gentlemen. Barristers may be tempted, 

 though, I think in a less degree, for reasons already men- 

 tioned, to act similarly towards attornies ; but the restraints 

 upon their yielding, are much greater. Their frequent meet- 

 ings in courts, and upon circuits, afford many opportunities 

 of discovering defaulters, and of inflicting punishments, 

 which few are hardy enough to disregard ; whereas phy- 

 sicians, having little necessary intercourse with each other, 

 are consequently in a great measure without the salutary fear 

 of the reprehension of their equals. In what estimation 

 would a barrister be held, who should give frequent and 

 costly dinners to attornies ? But it is said, and I believe 

 truly, that physicians of great eminence have derived much 

 of their practice from giving such dinners to apothecaries. 



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