Punch,  18 (1850), 157.

Admiralty v. Assistant-Surgeons

Punch

Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Medical Practitioners, Surgery, Class


    Addressed to the statesman Charles L W Sibthorp, asks why assistant surgeons in the Royal Navy, 'adult members of a liberal profession', are restricted 'to the berth of sea-schoolboys'. Disputes the claim put forward by a Lord of the Admiralty, James W D Dundas, that the reason for this arrangement was due to lack of space, and condemns the claim of another Admiralty lord, Maurice F F Berkeley, that, owing to inferior birth and education, an assistant-surgeon should not mix with senior officers lest he damage 'the discipline of the service'.



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