To the legislature, the profession in general, and the public at large. The privilege claimed by the Fellows of the College of Physicians, exclusively to regulate all the affairs, being now disputed by the Licentiates, and carried into the Court of King's Bench to be determined; - the Corporation of Surgeons having nearly been erected into a college, ... but which act, after passing the Commons, has been stayed in the House of Lords till the 19th of May, ... to give time for petitioners against it.

  • Champney, Thomas, 1761-1816.
Date:
[1797]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: To the legislature, the profession in general, and the public at large. The privilege claimed by the Fellows of the College of Physicians, exclusively to regulate all the affairs, being now disputed by the Licentiates, and carried into the Court of King's Bench to be determined; - the Corporation of Surgeons having nearly been erected into a college, ... but which act, after passing the Commons, has been stayed in the House of Lords till the 19th of May, ... to give time for petitioners against it. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I cals; that they were convinced of the hard- fhip, but could afford no relief: or that they fhould continue to make medicines, fell re- tail, and even to prefcribe; bidding defiance to the application. In the latter cafes, the apothecaries would have the remedy in their own hands, which they fhould then purfue, viz. to agree, under a penalty, not to deal with any druggift or chemift who refufed to comply with their application; and even to become wholefale chemifts and druggifts themfelves, by eftablifhing in London, and in every county-town, under the infpeftion of a regular chemift, an elaboratory and a drug-warehoufe, as a joint ftock; each apo- thecary inverting a proportion of the capi- tal, agreeable to his inclination. Or, if this would be illegal, then a fmall number might do the like, for ferving each county. If the Pharmaceutical Committee had been lefs difunited, and lefs intemperate, fuch an ap- plication at that time, would, I doubt not, have obtained from the druggifts all that the affociation then defired; for fuch druggifts, as I then confulted, would readily have agreed to a general regulation, on liberal and fair terms. Indeed, their interefts would haye fuffered lefs than at firft fight would appear.