A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner.

Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ENGLAND. THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON, From being the earliest chartered medical cor- poration, and from being the most prominent in the vices which distinguish our medical bodies, claims our first attention. The physicians were first recognized by Henry VIII. who in 1518, constituted six physicians into a college, with power to admit all men of the same faculty, as well as to exercise the privilege of making bye-laws. The jurisdiction of the college was to be con- fined to London and seven miles around. It is needless to say that all the members of the college at this time equally participated in its privileges and immunities. The power of making bye-laws was, at a very early period, made available to the designs of a few individuals, whose interests were in- timately associated with the limitation of the number of practising physicians. The same disposition has ever since distin- guished the proceedings of this body, even to the present day.