Dr. Andrew Clark and Mr. Prescott Hewett have received baronetcies,
and this will make the Medical profession in Dublin still more angry at the knighthood just bestowed on Dr. Porter. Still, may it not be fairly argued that there should be gradations in the recognition of medical services, as there certainly are gradations in those services themselves ? Dr. Andrew Clark is undoubtedly quite at the head of his professiun, and, if he had done nothing else, the service he has rendered in persuading middle-aged men and women not to over-eat themselves, and in showing them how much less food and wine and tea they ought to take than they actually do take, is one quite inestimable, and deserves a certain ethical as well as medical recognition. Mr. Prescott Hewett is one of the most considerable surgeons of his day. When the Dublin men can produce a physician and
surgeon who have done as much, we &wit that they, too, will, receive baronetcies. If hereditary titles are to be of any value, they should be well rooted in public services of a high order.
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