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THE third volume of the “New Series of Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board,” brings before us another instalment of the work paid for by the annual grant of 2,000l. “in aid of scientific investigations related to pathology and medicine.” This grant has been actively opposed by a small minority in the House of Commons mainly upon the narrow and invidious ground that the medical profession was thereby obtaining knowledge and instruction which the medical profession ought to obtain at its own expense. “The medical profession lives upon the public; the medical profession makes use of its knowledge to extract money from the public; the grant will add to the knowledge which the medical profession uses with such object—therefore the grant is money drawn from the pockets of the public to aid in the further depletion of the pockets of the public.”
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The Government Researches in Pathology and Medicine . Nature 12, 470–472 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012470a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012470a0