The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-29 00:00:00

BOARD AT AMSTERDAM.

CHAutmAN—Baron Sleet tot Oldhujs, Member of the Second Chamber
of the States General, President of the Tribunal of Zwolle, &c., &c.
I. A. Van Royen, Member of the First Chamber of the States Ge-
neral, &c., &c., &c.
R. S. Engelkens, ex-member of the First Chamber of the States Ge-
neral, Mayor of the town of Winschotten (Groningen), Member of
the Provincial States, &c., &c., &c.
Col. George Landmann, late of the Royal Engineers, Kingsland
Charles Pietroni, Esq. (Draper, Pietroni, and Co.), 4, Great Win-

ct.ester-street, London
Captain C. Nelson, Denmark-hill, Surrey
Edward Rudston Read, Esq., 21, Wellington-terrace, St. John's-wood
John David Barry, Esq., one of the Managing Directors of the Or-
leans and'Bordeaux Railway, Paris.
BANNERS IN AMSTERDAM.
Messrs. Goll and Co.
STANDING COUNSEL.
D. A. Walraven.
SECRETARY.
J. H. Graswinckel.
Offices In Amsterdam, Heerengracht, No. 371.
LONDON AGENCY.
Edward Rndston Read, ESQ.
John David Barry, Esq.

Col. George Landmann
Charles Pietroni, Esq.
Captain C. Nelson

BANKERS.
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Messrs. Strahan, Paul, Paul, and Bates, 217, Strand.
BROKERS.
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OFFICES OF THE LONDON AGENCY.
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Application for shares to be made at the office of Messrs. (3011 and
Co., in Amsterdam ; of the Agency in London ; and of the Brokers
of the Company.

* Translation.—Sect. 111. Art. 40.—The capital of the Company •
is divided into shares either to parties by name or to bearer. The
proprietors (or shareholders) are not responsible beyond the amount
of their shares. (Dutch Code of Commerce.)

LONDON AND CALIFORNIAN GOLD
QUARTZ CRUSHING COMPAN Y.
'the Directors of this Company beg to inform their Shareholders
that their SECOND SHIP3IENT of MACHINERY is about to pro-
ceed to California.

G. LANDMANN, Chairman.

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A Reversionary- Bonus was added to the policies at last Division
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any of the Society's Agents in the country. •
F. G. P. NELSON, Actuary.
C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary.

BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, New-
road, London.
A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS
TRANSPORTATION !
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS. .

Sift,—lt appears by the " Medical Times" of the 24th Instant that
the whole medical body is in a state of alarm at Use conviction of a
medical practitioner in Cornwall, who has been sentenced to 10
years' transportation for administering savine to a young woman
with intent to produce abortion. Every medical man who ad-
ministers a poison now fancies that he stands a chance of trans-
portation. If such were really the case, we do not hesitate
to say that a great boon would be conferred upon society; but
we presume that so long as poisons can be used, or held out
as medicines, in order to prop up the guinea-trade, they will
continue to figure in the pharmacopeia, and in the chemist's
shop. It is truly lamentable to see even the State lending
itself to the countenance of these deadly poisons, rather than that
the trade of doctors should suffer ; otherwise, why did they not in-
clude at least a dozen other poisons in Lord Carlisle's Bill about
the sale of arsenic? Was it because they would, not frighten the
patients ? •
ltevertieg to the case under consideration, it would appear that
applications are to be made to the Secretary of State-for a remission
of the sentence passed on Dir. Pascoe, on the ground that the evi-
dence given against him by his brother doctor is not worthy of cre-
dit ! So it is ! This is exactly what we have always said—namely,
that let doctors do what they please, they are accountable to no
one. As to judge and jury, they are mere automatons in the hands
of doctors. And why is all this? Simply because the science of me-
dicine, as it is called, is a jumble of absurdities and contradictions,
having no fixed principles; and which, in the hands of doctors, can
be turned and twisted to suit any emergency.
This conviction will, we trust, enlighten the public on what we
call the "medical liberty of the subject," it will show them the ex-
tent of the power possessed by the man with the diploma in his
pocket. Assuming Pascoe to be innocent (which we do not pretend
to say), here is the liberty of a man taken away on the mere ipse
dixit'of a common country doctor, although tried before a most acute,
learned, and humane judge ; but himself completely in the hands of
the doctor. Now, we ask, should the liberties of Englishmen be
placed in such jeopardy? What miserable exhibitions doctors make
of themselves and their calling whenever they come before the courts
of law ! In the present case we shall fled them sailing on the Govern-
ment to annul a sentence because it tends to make them responsible
for the administration of poisons. Most likely Pascoe will be pardoned ;
it would be a pity that the least check should be given to the poison
traffic; the guinea-trade might suffer; some snore respectable doc-
tor might be made answerable, and sentenced to ten years' trans-
portation, which would be highly unpleasant. We suppose this
case was brought before the world quite by mistake. Mr. Moorman,
who gave evidence, is catching it right and left from his medical
brethren. In conclusion, we have oniy to repeat that the crime of
poisoning, and all other misdeeds arising out of it, will not receive a
check until doctors cease from administering poisons as medicines.
So long as they, themselves, are at the very head and front of the
offenders, all law and iustice must lie prostrate, and the most guilty
party most easily escape.

Why do Hygeists claim the medical liberty of the subject ? Be-
cause they do not deal with poisons. If medicine were reduced to
what Hygeists contend it shOuld be, Such cages as Pascoe's could not
occur unless the party really acted feloniously. But, as it is, any
doctor n ay give what poison ho pleases, and then say that he gave
it "medicinally." And what law, we fearlessly ask, is there to
touch him? Surely, the people of England will not much longer
put up with the present order of things, by which the lives of the
people are kept in constant jeopardy, and the law and the judges
brought into contempt. Jet a stop be put to the sale of all poisons
by all pharmaceutical chemists ; and all doctors,, whether diplo-
mated or not, be prevented from prescribing them for diseases ; then,
and then only, will the country be iu a safe and healthy state, not
otherwise.

We are, sir, your obedient servants,
TIIEMENIBERS OF THE BP.ITISII COLLE"

Ok' HEALTH.

April S 6, 1852.

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