Remarks on medical reform : in a second letter addressed to the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart. ... / by Sir James Clark.

  • Clark, James, 1788-1870.
Date:
1843
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    that you will give them, as well as the sugges- tions which I have now the honour of laying before you, your mature consideration before completing your promised measure of Medical Reform. My principal object in addressing you at pre- sent is to urge the necessity of so framing the legislative enactment which you are about to in- troduce, as thereby to secure to all who are per- mitted to engage in the practice of medicine a good education. This is unquestionably the most important part of what is implied by Medical Reform, and that calling most loudly for the inter- ference of the Legislature. Until it is obtained, any scheme of reforming or modifying the exist- ing medical corporations will, in my belief, be productive of little benefit to the profession and less to the public. Enactments enforcing a certain amount of edu- cation before a licence to practise medicine can be obtained, form, I believe, part of the legal code of every state in Europe except our own. Yet in no country is such control more wanted than in this, where so many irresponsible bodies possess the power of granting degrees in medicine or of licensing medical practitioners—no two of them agreeing on the amount of instruction and qualifications required of their candidates. In order that you may be thoroughly satisfied