On medical reform ... : a letter to the General Council of Medical Education, on the adjudication of the Carmichael prize, (£200.,) May 4th, 1868, on medical reform and on medical education, to Dr. Mapother, one of the Council of the Irish College of Surgeons (who should have been an adjudicator), by his three colleagues, and their erroneous report on the prize essay, including a verbatim summary of the author's unsuccessful essay for the same prize / by Edwards Crisp.

  • Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.
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1870
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Credit: On medical reform ... : a letter to the General Council of Medical Education, on the adjudication of the Carmichael prize, (£200.,) May 4th, 1868, on medical reform and on medical education, to Dr. Mapother, one of the Council of the Irish College of Surgeons (who should have been an adjudicator), by his three colleagues, and their erroneous report on the prize essay, including a verbatim summary of the author's unsuccessful essay for the same prize / by Edwards Crisp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Committees 1834, 1847 and 1848, not only has taken to its aims all British Doctors of Medicine, who would pay for] the cold embrace, and made them Physicians by the talismanic touch of Ten Guineas, fitting them in a trice for Hospitals and Dispen- saries, but it goes in also for the retail trade in diplomas ; attempts to rival the College of Surgeons, and the Apothecaries’ Company in its cheap medico-cbirurgical undergrade wares. I shall speak of the London College of Surgeons hereafter, and I now pass on to describe the doings of another College in the sister Kingdom, and in commenting upon Dr. Mapother’s errors, I shall endeavour to throw light upon other matters that are of especial interest at the present time. 29, Beaufort Street, Chelsea, March, 1870. EXPLANATION. That the reader may properly understand the Carmichael Prize adjudication, and its bearing upon Medical Reform, it will be necessary to give a brief history of Mr. Carmichael’s testamentary injunctions. Mr. Carmichael, who was accidently drowned in 1849, was an ardent and enthusiastic Medical reformer—a warm advocate for a Faculty of Medicine in each of the three King- doms—and to shew his opinion of Medical and Surgical Corpora- tions, and the damaging influence they have had on the progress cf science, and the good of suffering humanity, let me quote two or three extracts from his speech at the Medical Reform Congress, held in Dublin in 1S40. The testimony is especially valuable> as he had been three times President of the Irish College of Surgeons, which institution was included in his sweeping censure. In speaking of Mr. Warburton’s Bill, he said : “ But if it does not lay the axe to the root of the evil, and deprive the several corporate bodies of the licensing power, who thus, in abandon- ment of all principle, shamefully sell their honors to the highest bidders for money, and lowest in point of competence, they may as well allow the present system of misrule and abuse to remain unmolested.” “ The eighteen licensing corporations will, no doubt make some show of opposition, but they are rotten and