Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison].

Harrison, Edward, 1759-1838

Date:: 1806

Credit: Remarks on the ineffective state of the practice of physic in Great Britain; with proposals for its future regulation and improvement, and the resolutions of the members of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lincolnshire / [Edward Harrison]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$(. 211 ) J fim sufficiently aware, that, to form a new medical constitution and code ol laws, would ■ require a great deal of consideration and dis- cussion; but if the education of those, who are in future to enter into the profession, were, in the hrst place, to be carefidly defined (a mea- sure by no means impracticable, or difficult), and the management of sickness committed ex- clusively to persons of competent skill, much, verv much would be gained, both for the Fa- culty, and tor all classes of the community, '^Vhen these objects are attained, it is presumed, that able and intelligent persons may be pro- perly employed, in forming a new and compre- hensive system of medical jurisprudence.* • In large towns, few obstacles sta.nd in the way of improvement. The difficulties are much * To correct abuses, and restore the profession to it-i due rank in society., will require the cordial union and co-operation of all parties; nor does it appear to be either just or liberal, in any particular body or description of the Faculty, to endeavour to legislate out of their proper department, or beyond their own juiTdlction, except in conjunction with the. rest of their brethren. The Faculty ot Physic consists of physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, accoucheurs, and druggists, who are all of them acknow'- Icdged by the people, and are, therefore, equally entitled to their share of attention, in every general plan of nio dical improvement. \ greater$