The French physicians and surgeons display a degree of attention and zeal in the execution of their duties truly exemplary. Their public professional duties are ever the primary consideration, for which the trifling salary they receive is a pitiful remuneration while in the London hospitals, it is too evident that public appointments are generally considered but the stepping stones to practice and private emolument.

Cross J. Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris.

London: Callow, 1815