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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pany of Apothecaries in the art of knowing, com- pounding, and dispensing medicinal substances on the prescription of a physician or surgeon, and in nothing else. Their respective train of examination should not, in fact, encroach on the province of the other two ; for such an encroachment would be looked upon as an act of injustice by one against the rest. Yet such is the state of the case at present; and the men who actually respect least and infringe most the vested rights of medical chartered bodies, are,, in good truth, the medical chartered bodies themselves ;—as the volumes of parliamentary evidence have abundantly shown. We therefore, the medical reformers of Eng- land, are not the destructives; but the self-conserva- tives are so. Take, again, another view of this pretended vested right of the chartered bodies : for we will not dismiss cavalierly the defence of it set up by their friends. Let us suppose that right to be respected as sacred by each of them ; and each of them to possess it as strictly defined as I have shown that,, on every prin- ciple of justice, it ought to be, according to their own individual pretensions :—what benefit to the candi- date would the preservation of such a vested right at the present time produce ? A single example will suffice to answer that question. The Crown has recently thought proper to institute in the metropolis a general board or senate, which, among other important duties, will perform that of examining candidates in all the branches of medical knowledge, and authorise all such of them as shall be found competent, to practise under the seal of a di- ploma. If the vested right of examination in all the