Decision by Court of Session, (Second Division), respecting charter of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

  • Scotland. Court of Session.
Date:
1819
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    of Surgery in the Counties of Lanark, Renfrew, Ayr, and Burgh of Dumbarton. It also empowers them to license those found skilful, and to fine and amerce whoever refuse to be examin- ed; or, when examined, are judged not duly qua- lified. This important trust, calculated for the security of the public, and conferred, with this view, by Royal authority, whose chief function is to watch over the safety of the lieges, the Faculty, for more than two centuries, have continued to discharge, sometimes with less, sometimes with more rigidness, according as flagrant cases of igno- rance and presumption in the Healing Art present- ed themselves to their view. Of late years, the practice of ignorant and un- learned persons, taking upon themselves to exercise the functions of Medicine, became more prevalent than formerly ; and a very notorious case of this kind came under the view of the Circuit Court, in the autumn of 1811. The present Lord Justice Clerk, then oh the Bench, took occasion, strongly and authoritatively, to call upon the Faculty to exercise the power, which he understood was con- tained in their Charter, in correcting such abuses, disgraceful to their profession, and highly danger- ous to the community. On the 24th of March, 1812, the High Court of Justiciary, before whom the Charter was laid, passed an Act of Adjournal,