The chartered rights and privileges of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and its claims to be continued one of the medical licensing colleges of Scotland : with an appendix.

  • Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
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1845
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    tlie effects of these upon the vested rights of the Faculty, its indi- vidual Members, and the interests of the city of Glasgow. In August, 1844, a Bill “ For the better regulation of Medical Practice throughout the United Kingdom ” was introduced into Parliament by Sir James Graham, in which it was proposed that the Diploma of “ General Practitioner in Medicine and Surgery” should be given nowhere in Scotland, except in Edinburgh, by the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Surgeons, the license being that of the Royal Colleges of Scotland; the right of the Glasgow Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons to grant this Diploma being thus taken from them. But it was also proposed that the higher Degree of Doctor of Medicine, and also a new Degree of Bachelor in Medicine, which last was to confer the rights and privileges of the “ General Practitioner,” should be granted in Edinburgh by a Board of Examiners, chosen partly from the Royal Colleges, and partly from the University; and in Glasgow by a Board of Examiners, chosen partly by the Faculty, —which was to have the title of the “ Royal College of Physi- cians and Surgeons of Glasgow,”—and partly by the University. There was also a fourth Degree—that of “ Surgeon”—which, by the Bill, was to be granted by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and also by that of Glasgow, without any connexion with the College of Physicians or the Universities. It was like- wise the intention of Government to introduce a Bill “ For enabling Her Majesty to grant new Charters to certain Royal Colleges;” and, in the draft of this Bill, the Faculty was named —under the title of “ The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,”—as one of the Bodies to which a new Charter was to be given, conferring new privileges m lieu of those restrictive powers which they at present possess, and had agreed to give up. Accordingly, after many communications between Sir James Graham and the Faculty, this Charter was at last completed, and drawn out under the direction of Government. This position, in which the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons was proposed by the Bill of 1844 to be placed—to be joined to the Glasgow University in giving the higher Degrees, and to be erected, by a new Charter, into the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow,—the Faculty, in a Memorial addressed to Sir James Graham, “ cheerfully acknowledged” to be a