The next paragraph to which we shall allude is a masterpiece of hypocrisy--"Let me ask you (said he) what you have heard respecting the miseries of the individual on whom the operation was performed? Not one word has escaped the lips of the counsel on that subject--not one word from the mouth of one of the witnesses. No, gentlemen, they are hospital surgeons themselves, and they know too well what the practices of our hospitals are, and the sufferings _patients are in the habit of enduring at their hands_, to feel for this man, or for any other man placed in a similar situation!" Canting hypocrite! this from the man who in the very case before us published his account of the patient's sufferings in the form of a drama, mingled with low and scurrilous gibes. Mark also the following--"Give such a verdict as shall satisfy the _poor_--as will shew that men are not to go into offices of this sort where the _poor are to be killed_, and that they shall not be at liberty to wade and ride through blood up to their necks to eminence in their profession. Ah! gentlemen, give such a verdict as shall satisfy the _poor_!" There is in the various paragraphs we have quoted, more deep-rooted malice--more abandoned violation of the truth--more hypocrisy--and more open outrage of common sense, decency, and feeling, than we ever remember to have met with, even in the pages of the Lancet. It is now quite obvious that Wakley, alarmed at the change which has taken place in the estimation of his work within the last few months, finds it necessary to adopt a new system; he therefore throws off the mask, and openly declares himself the champion of the ignorant and illiterate[22]--conjuring up to their imaginations evils which do not exist--denouncing the medical profession as one of blood and murder--medical men as "thriving and fattening on their fellow-creatures"--and calling upon the "humane contributors to our hospitals and infirmaries" to support him.