The state of the Scottish working class in 1843

defendant of the Acts: "I am astounded at the audacity of his declaration 'Our profession and our profession alone has a right to dictate ...' in the matter of the Contagious Diseases Acts! This kind of assertion, which I fear expresses the opinion of some of these aristocratic doctors is calculated to make the medical profession (as a friend expressed it) 'stink in the nostrils of the moral and religious people of England'." (p. 249) Dr. McHugh's monograph complements the recent work on Victorian resistance to vaccination and vivisection by Macleod, French, and others. Between them, these authors have opened up a fertile area which deserves further systematic exploration. W. F. Bynum Wellcome Institute