Statutes and bye-laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh : made in pursuance of the powers granted by Royal Charter, 1681 ; with charter, letter of ratification, and list of fellows.

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Date:
1852
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Credit: Statutes and bye-laws of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh : made in pursuance of the powers granted by Royal Charter, 1681 ; with charter, letter of ratification, and list of fellows. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Renewal of attempt, 1630. Patent bv Cromwell, 1656. Iii 1630 the attempt was renewed, and King Charles I. referred the matter to the Privy Council; but, owing chiefly to the unsettled state of public affairs, nothing more was done in his reign. The matter was warmly taken up by Cromwell during his Protectorate ; and a patent, still extant, was made out in 1656, instituting a College of Physicians of Scotland, “ who shall have power and authoritie to oversie, rule, and order, what may concerne the right administratioune of Physike to the people of Scotland in all pairts and places of the said nation, with power to them to censure and punish all persons who shall presume to practise, exercise, or profess Physike, or give Medicines, or ordaine Physicall Praescriptiones in any pairt or place of Scotland, being not members of the said Colledge, or not being approved and licensed by the said Praesident and Colledge under their Common Seal/' Farther,, by this patent of Incorpora- tion it was proposed to give to the said President and Col- lege the power to practise the Art of Surgery: “forasmuch as the Science of Physick doth comprehend, include, and containe in it the knowledge of Chirurgery, being a special part of the same and member thereof/' By it, also, the power of examining and licensing Apothecaries, and of visiting their shops, was to be conferred on the proposed College ; and, lastly, they were to be entitled to receive from the magistrates of the several cities and burghs, and the sheriffs of the respective counties, “ such dead bodies of malefactors executed as they shall desyre, for making of dissection and anatomie for the use of the Colledge. The extensive powers thus proposed to be conferred