. Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850 : with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the medical profession in the west of Scotland. presentation of the cloth. If the delin-quents admitted their fault, they were dismissed after signing an obligation,or bond of desistance as it was called, by which they engaged no moreto poach in the forbidden preserves, on pain of the statutory penalty of;^40 Scots. If they declined to attend on summons, or proved contumaciouswhen they did so, other proceedings became necessary, and to these


. Memorials of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1850 : with a sketch of the rise and progress of the Glasgow Medical School and of the medical profession in the west of Scotland. presentation of the cloth. If the delin-quents admitted their fault, they were dismissed after signing an obligation,or bond of desistance as it was called, by which they engaged no moreto poach in the forbidden preserves, on pain of the statutory penalty of;^40 Scots. If they declined to attend on summons, or proved contumaciouswhen they did so, other proceedings became necessary, and to these we willadvert in the next chapter. The allocation of charity to casual applicants formed another almostinvariable piece of business at the monthly meetings. Probably in theoryevery benefaction of this kind had for its object some person connected inone way or another with the profession. But if this was the rule, certainlythe widest possible application was given to it. The connection withmedicine of many of the beneficiaries appears to have been of the mostdistant character. Nor was their sympathy expended on merely casual actsof charity. As we shall afterwards find they believed in systematic. ^J^ yuz^


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