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SELECTED ARTICLES. 
ART. XIII. — REVIEW OF THE "REPORT FROM THE 
SELECT COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, 
WITH THE MINUTES OF EVIDENCE AND APPEN- 
DIX. Part III. Society of Apothecaries, London. Ordered, by the 
House of Commons to be Printed 13th August 1834." 
We have just received the third part of the Report of the 
Committee of the House of Commons on Medical Education, 
in reference to the Society of Apothecaries, and hasten to lay 
an abstract of it before our readers. It consists of two parts, 
the one containing parole, the other documentary evidence. 
The former with the exception of the information commu- 
nicated by Dr. Christison, is characterized by a degree of 
arrogance, ignorance of subjects on which the most dogmatical 
assertions are made, inconsistency, prejudice, and inconclusive 
reasoning, which a priori, we should have considered it 
utterly impossible for any body of tolerably educated pro- 
fessional men in the present day to have exhibited. But this 
is not all. The evidence, such as it is, discloses facts which 
imperatively call upon the Legislature to deprive this incor- 
porate body of those exclusive privileges which they have 
so long enjoyed. These we are aware are grave charges, 
which it is incumbent upon us to establish by the clearest 
evidence. But before we conclude this article, we shall con- 
vince every impartial reader, in the most unexceptional 
manner, by the testimony of some of the leading members of 
* We have thought the Review, ViAhich w^e now republish from the 
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, would be interesting to Ame- 
rican readers, as the information it contains is not generally possessed in 
this country. As regards the direct purpose of the review and its tenor 
we are not concerned, as the abuses of which it complains are local, and 
do not affect us. Still, with respect to the practice of the profession in a 
country so closely connected with us as England, it is important to possess 
all possible knowledge, and the present article affords the opportunity of 
becoming acquainted with facts but lately laid before the public— Ed. 
