An address to the College of Physicians, and to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; occasion'd by the late swarms of Scotch and Leyden physicians, &c. who have openly assum'd the liberty (unlicens'd from the College, &c.) of practising physick in England, contrary to the privileges of our universities, and to the charter granted to the College of Physicians in London. To which is added, a compleat list of all the regular physicians / By an impartial hand [Signed A.Z].

Date:
1747
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Credit: An address to the College of Physicians, and to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; occasion'd by the late swarms of Scotch and Leyden physicians, &c. who have openly assum'd the liberty (unlicens'd from the College, &c.) of practising physick in England, contrary to the privileges of our universities, and to the charter granted to the College of Physicians in London. To which is added, a compleat list of all the regular physicians / By an impartial hand [Signed A.Z]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prlfon, and that he himfelf could not bail or deli¬ ver their Prifoner. That no Licenfe, whether Archbifliop or Bi- fhops, or of any other Perfonage whatfoever, is valid in Law, or can juftify the Perfon pra^tifing, who has not the College Seal ; and therefore ( fo little Pretence have the Scotch and Leyden Phyfici- ans to this Privilege) that no Graduate, even of our own Univerfity, (however learned a Phyfici- an or Dodlor) may praeffife in London^ or within feven Miles, unlefs he is firfr examined by the College, and has obtained their PermifTion. An Oxford Graduate formerly try’d this Point, as his Licenfe from that Univerfity runs thus : ' Liberam tibi Tenore prefenthm concedimus potefta- tem facultatem pra5fica?idi in Medicind ea om¬ nia faciendi qua: ad Medicinam fpeSlant.-Facul¬ tatem iibi VIS per univerfum Angliae regniim in per- petuum diiraturam. By which it is very evident he has the Liberty of pradlifing in any Part of England.-However, the Gentleman was cafb by the College, as theUni- verfity Statute was fuperfeded by the Charter grant¬ ed to the College. But fuch Perfons as are defirous to fee a particular Account of thofe who have flood Trial with the College, I refer to GoodaWs Hifto- ry of the College, which no Phyfician ought to be without. ’Tis very furprifing, that of late Years there fhould be fo little Enquiry made into the Qualifi¬ cations of Practitioners, when it is the bounden Duty of every Member of the College to do it, bdngfworn to make Prefen ration of all illegal (fuch are the Scotch and Leyden Phyficians without Li- cenfes) and dangerous (fuch are all Quacks and fpecific Dealers) PraClitioners. — But through a long Forbearance thefe Gentlemen begin to imagine they