Graduation under the Medical and Scottish Universities Acts : with some account of the origin of universities and degrees / by Robert Christison.

  • Christison, Robert, Sir, 1797-1882.
Date:
1861
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    division merely, to a similar right over all Her Majesty’s dominions. But the Act does not, and the General Council cannot, otherwise alter, or in any way settle, the legal force of the testimonials granted by these institutions. The legal value of each stands as to kind exactly as it did before the Act; and if that value be disputed, the parties concerned must go before the courts of law to have it settled, and not before the General Council. At least the Council would be unwise to allow itself to be involved in such a question. This is a point very generally misunder- stood ; but the Act leaves no room for doubt about it. The case would have been otherwise however had the Legislature passed by the interpolation which has already been alluded to. 5. We have got a legislative discouragement of quackery. We cannot indeed with the Medical Act put down quacks summarily, as many hoped to do. But it is a discouragement, that no such person dare call himself by any of the numerous professional titles which denote a regular practitioner qualified to be registered. There is a doubt about one title being guarded thus against usurpation and dis- grace ; and, strange to say, that title is the highest and most honourable that any of us can win. For some law decisions in the inferior courts of England