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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    then would it become their own interefl (the only certain fecurity) to confider their apothecary as a rational creature, who had alfo an individual interefl to purfue.—When all general laws fhall make the pri- vate accord with the public good, then will reafon and jujlice emerge from the back ground ; philofophy, or the fludy of nature and nature's laws, be made the pur - fuit of both fexes ; and the healing art a [fume its due importance, and become a bleffng to the world. The meafles, in fome cafes, may attack with pecu- liar fymptoms of inflammation, and require the free life of the lancet, or of medicine ; but I will venture to aflert, that if every child, attacked with the meafles (the fymptoms of which are feldom ambiguous) were kept carefully in bed for four days in a moderately warm room, and fupplied freely with only barley wa- ter and apple tea, that we fliould then hear of but few children dying of the meafles, though now a ve- ry fatal difeafe. The apothecary’s interefl now for- bids his advifing thus; indeed the ufe of the faculty of reafon muft become more general in both fexes, and fees given, before it will be in his power. Dr. Franklin has faid, <c God Almighty helps thofe who help themfelves.” . . » “ Thus the men, ** Whom Nature’s works can charm, with God himfelf “ Hold converfe ; grow familiar, day by day, 4< With his conceptions, aft upon his plan ; And form to his, the reiifh of their fouls.” Were