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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![9 May 184s. licentiates without a ballot, on simply paying their fees. Their University diploma It. Ckristison. Esq., gives them the right of practising and teaching hie et ubique terrdrum; of course M* D- the Committee will understand that it is impossible to define a privilege conferred in such terms. 1512. It is not defined practically ?—No. 1513. And except as it gives a key of admission to those different bodies to which you refer, it is of no practical benefit as conferring privilege to practice ?— No, no legal privilege; but it has been received by courtesy as qualifying for physician’s practice not only in Scotland, but likewise throughout every part of England, except in the London district, under the superintendence of the College of Physicians of London. 1514. With reference to all those bodies conferring degrees in medicine, or granting diplomas as surgeons, there are only two privileged districts ?—Yes. 1515. That connected with Edinburgh and that connected with Glasgow ; all the rest of Scotland, the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Wigton, and the whole of the counties north of the Forth, except Fife, are not under any exclusive privilege of any medical body whatever ?—No ; I have made a rough estimate; about three-fifths of the population of Scotland are not under any corporate body. 1516. But any person may settle down in any parts of those counties, except, perhaps, in the corporate towns, and practise there as a physician, surgeon or general practitioner?—I believe I may safely say, including the corporate towns. 1517. Sir R. H. Inglis.] May a graduate of an English university in the profession of medicine, or a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, or a licentitate or an extra-licentitate of such Royal College practise within the separate districts which you have already specified connected with Edinburgh and with Glasgow respectively?—With Edinburgh certainly; with Glasgow, subject to the exercise of the privileges of the Glasgow faculty, which privileges I have already said have been of late occasionally enforced ; but in the rest of Scotland all the denominations of practitioners now mentioned may settle and practise as they please, and there are, in fact, graduates of the English universities, as well as members of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, now practising in Scotland without any other title. 1518. If then the professional body in Glasgow, and the districts subject to it, seek a free and unrestrained license to practise in England, they seek that for themselves which their present practice at least does not concede to those educated in England, and bearing the license or degree of the Royal College of Physicians of London, or either of the English Universities?—I think so ; I understand you confine the question to the faculty in Glasgow. 1519. Chairman.1 But in the other case, if the practitioner in Edinburgh licensed by either of the colleges there, or the practitioners over Scotland holding the diplomas from the universities, or degrees from any of the bodies either in Edinburgh or Glasgow, ask a participation and equality of practice with England, they are not asking that which in practice they do not concede ? —Positively not. 1520. Sir R. H. Inglis.] In point of fact, is there any distinction between Scot- land on the one hand, as to two-fifths or three-fifths, as you may have defined the proportions, and England on the other, with the exception of the Metropolis and seven miles round it, in the practice of the Scotch physician and the English physician ; in other words, is there not a fair reciprocity, with that exception ?—I think so. 1521. Mr. Hamilton.] Can you state how that matter stands with regard to Ireland?—I am not acquainted with any graduates of the University of Dublin practising in Scotland, nor with any licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Dublin practising in Scotland; but I have no hesitation in saying, that there is nothing to prevent them from practising anywhere, excepting within the Glasgow districts. 1522. Colonel Mure.'] In reference to what the honourable baronet has asked as to mutual restrictions, I understand the answer to be, in fact, that the restric- tions are in force, and that each body is entitled to put in force those restrictions in regard to the districts to which those restrictions extend?—No, rather the reverse as regards Scotland. 1523. Are not those restrictions as regards Glasgow mutual, inasmuch as the College of Physicians of London, having the privilege of seven miles round 7°2. a 3 London,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24906803_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
