An address to the general practitioners of England and Wales on the provisions of the Bill 'for regulating the profession of physic and surgery,' as contrasted with those of the Medical Bill introduced in the last session of Parliament.

  • Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London.
Date:
1845
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Credit: An address to the general practitioners of England and Wales on the provisions of the Bill 'for regulating the profession of physic and surgery,' as contrasted with those of the Medical Bill introduced in the last session of Parliament. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    prepare the Licentiate’s scheme of education, without the concurrence of a Court of Examiners composed of Members of his own branch of the profession, the Society have expressed the strongest disapprobation of this feature of the Bill2. But if it is intended that the Court of Examiners of the Society of Apo- thecaries are to have an equal voice with the Col- lege of Physicians in determining the curriculum of study, and “ the particulars” (by which we under- stand not only the subjects, but the character and tone) of the examination, the provision is, to this extent, obviously less objectionable as regards the interests of the General Practitioner. So with re- spect to the examination of the Licentiate, if the Examiners appointed by the College of Physicians, and the Court of Examiners of the Society of Apo- thecaries, are to form a joint Board with equal poivei’s as respects all its Members, whatever objection may be entertained to such a Board as compared with a Board composed of General Practitioners exclusively, the objection is of a totally different kind to that which exists to a Board of Examiners appointed by the College of Physicians assisted only (and that in some comparatively unimportant subject of exami- nation, perhaps) by a Court of Examiners of General Practitioners. The Society have no reason to doubt that Sir