Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
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- 1848
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Credit: Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Appendix, No. 11. PRINCIPLES for a General Measure of Medical Reform, as agreed upon by (lie Joint Committee of the Ro\al Colleges of Physicians and Surg eons of England.-, the Society of Apothecaries ; and the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery. With Observations thereon by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS in IRELAND. Ss2 March 1848. The following Paper having been submitted to the Council of this College, was con- sidered at several Meetings, and the opinion of the Council expressed thereon, in the Observations annexed to each clause, and printed in brackets :— PRINCIPLES of a General Measure of Medical Reform, as agreed upon by the Join t Committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England; the Society of Apothecaries; and the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery and Mid- wifery. A Committee, comprising the Presidents and other members of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, the Master and other members of the Society of Apothecaries, and the President and other members of the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, having met to consider what grievances affect the medical profession, and ought to be redressed, and what changes would be generally acceptable to the profession and advantageous to the public, has, after mature deliberation, concluded unanimously, that alt real grievances which have been complained of as affecting the whole or part of the profession, would be, as far as possible, remedied, and that the whole profession would be better regulated than it lias hitherto been, if a general measure were passed by the Legislature, founded upon the following principles, which have met witlt the unanimous assent of the different classes of the profession, as represented in the Committee. It is further the opinion of this Committee, that a measure of this nature would be generally acceptable to the profession, and aiso eminently conducive to the public good, as well by securing to ihe public the services of physicians, surgeons and general practitioners, whose education lias been rendered as complete as possible, and whose fitness to practise has been duly ascertained, as, likewise, by enabling the public to distinguish all such thoroughly educated and legally qualified persons, from those whose education and qualifications have never been tested by any legal or competent tribunal. Principles on which a Bill for regulating the Practice of Physic and Surgery should be founded. I. That a Charter of Incorporation should be granted to the surgeon-apothecaries of this country, under the title of “The Royal College of General Practitioners of England.” [Council objects to the formation of a new corporation in Ireland under the name of “ A College of General Practitioners,” and is strongly of opinion that a class of apothecaries or chemists should be preserved under the control of the existing Apothecaries’ Company; and that no general practitioner should he permitted to keep open shop, or to compound the prescriptions of other practitioners.—R. C. S., 1.] II. That a Council should be established to superintend the registration of all medical and surgical practitioners, and for the general control of medical education and practice. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.] Thai the Council should consist of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, in right of his office (who should also be Piesident of ilie said Council, with power to appoint a Vice-President), and that the other Members of the Council (of whom not less than two-thirds should he registered members of the medical piofession) should be such persons, not more than twelve, whom Her Majesty, with the advice of her Privv Council, should deem fit to be members of the said Council. [Council is of opinion that power should be given to appoint three Vice-Presidents, one to reside in each Kingdom ; and that in addition to the Vicc-P)esidents, an equal number of Medical Councillors should he appointed in each kingdom. Council thinks, that an equal section of the General Council should ,sit permanently in each kingdom, and that a congress of the whole Council should he held at least once every year, at a stated period.—R. C. S., ].] That the Council should be empowered, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to appoint a principal secretary and local sectetaries for Scotland and Ireland, and clerks, uiessengeis, &c.; and that the members of the Council, the secretaries, cierks, &c., should’ receive such salaries as the Lords of the Treasury should think proper to allow [Asneed to.—R. C. S., I.] ' L b III. That a register should be made and published by the said Council, as soon as con- veniently may be, of all persons entitled, as alter explained, to be registered as physicians, surgeons or general practitioners, and who shall apply to be so registered within one year, if tesiding in any part of the United Kingdom, or within two yeats if resident abroad ; for 702* 3 c 4 which](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24906803_0387.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
