“I will tell you how they got in. The act of Parliament makes two exceptions: first, it lets in, without examination—and that is very unwise—any foreign doctor who shall be practicing in England at the date of the act, although, with equal incapacity, it omits to provide that any future foreign doctor shall be able to demand examination (in with the old foreign fogies, blindfold, right or wrong; out with the rising foreign luminaries of an ever-advancing science, right or wrong); and, secondly, it lets in, without examination, to experiment on the vile body of the public, any person, qualified or unqualified, who may have been made a doctor by a very venerable and equally irrelevant functionary. Guess, now, who it is that a British Parliament sets above the law, as a doctor-maker for that public it professes to love and protect!”
“The Regius Professor of Medicine?”
“No.”
“Tyndall?”
“No.”
“Huxley?”
“No.”
“Then I give it up.”
“The Archbishop of Canterbury.”
“Oh, come! a joke is a joke.”