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.

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.