THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN VICTORIA.
The Melbourne Medical Beoord has the following remarks in a paper on the atate of the profession :--" With a population of seven hundred thousand we have quite seven hundred medical men to take oharge of them. Few towns in England, with the exoeption of the very fashionable onea, where the siok congregate, can show suoh a redundancy of, as v oltaire Bays, • things on two legs putting drugs they know but littl« about into the bodies they know nothing of.' In England, two thousand souls are supposed to be able to keep one doctor from starvation. In this colony the profession cannot say that, although they get fair picking, even between forty per cent, from the druggists, and a per centage from the undertakers, for 260,000 belong to clubs, and about the same number seek medicines and advice at the different hospitals which exist in nearly every town* ship in the oolony."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1219, 10 April 1875, Page 4
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