Medical reform : being the subject of the first annual oration, instituted by the British Medical Association, and delivered at the second anniversary of that society / by A.B. Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1838
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    must those officers have aflPorded to the assembled members of the parliamentary committee, with their selfish and narrow-minded views respecting questions which, as they regard the public more than indi- vidual interest, ought to have been treated with boundless liberality !—How pitiable a sight, I re- peat, must it not have been to behold one officer after another, of those chartered bodies, clinging with a pertinacity worthy of a better cause, to the defence of abuses and irregularities, and even of the violation of prescriptive rights, (for of such the evidence of 1834 affords sundry examples,) after the existence of such abuses, irregularities, and violations had been esta- blished by the skilful agency of cross-examination ! What impression upon the examining committee must that distinguished individual have made, during his examination, who, being at the head of one of the colleges, declared that a doctor of medicine, while practising surgery, or belonging to the College of Sur- geons, was not a fit person to be admitted into his college*—that the powers granted by parliament to the Apothecaries’ Company to examine candidates in physic were to be lamented f—and that an obstetrical practitioner ought not to enter the royal college as a fellow, though a doctor of medicine, because ‘‘mid- wifery was an act foreign to the habits of gentlemen of enlarged academical education ;”:j:—concluding at last by asserting that the principal use of his college * Questions 236, 237, 238, 239, Part I., and 243 above all. t Question 219, Part I. % Extracted from a re])ly of the president of the College of Phy- sicians to a note addressed by the Obstetric Society of London to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, previously to the parliamentary inquiry. C