Examination of the president and examiners of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the medical and surgical corporate bodies of the United Kingdom, with an analysis of the evidence given before the select committee of the House of Commons; and suggestions for an improved system of medical government / by Edwards Crisp.

  • Crisp Edwards, 1806-1882.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Examination of the president and examiners of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the medical and surgical corporate bodies of the United Kingdom, with an analysis of the evidence given before the select committee of the House of Commons; and suggestions for an improved system of medical government / by Edwards Crisp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Will you give a brief recapitulation of tbe Plan of Medical RcfoiTn that you have advocated ? 1st. 'Pbe estabUsbment of a Faculty of Medicine in England, Ireland, and Scotland. 2nd. That all who enter tbe medical profession should undergo a preliminary examination in Mathematics, Latin, and Greek, and, after a few years, the French and German languages might be added. 3rd. That eveiy candidate for the diploma of the Faculty shall be subjected to an efScient examination in medicine and surgery, as well as in the collateral sciences, and that the verbal examination shall be conducted in puilic. 4th. That the examiners, or those composing the Senate, shall receive a fixed stipend; they shall not be teachers; and they shall be elected, as before described, (page 27). 5th. That aU hospital appointments shall be made by Concours; and those elected shall be compelled to keep a proper register of their cases, and to publish a sTommary of them every year. 6th. That an efl&cient Board of Health shall be esta- blished in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and that this Boai'd shah be composed chiefly of medical practitioners. 7th. That a proper protection shall be afibrded by Government against illegal practice; and that all qualified prac- titioners shall be at liberty to exercise their calling in any part of Her Majesty’s dominions, not excepting the sacred circle of the city of London. Do you not expect to make a host of enemies by the publica- tion of this pamphlet?—Yes; but I have spoken what I beheve to be the truth, and have sought neither the favor nor the afiection of any man. I have, moreover, the consolatory assm-ance that although the reform I advocate may for a time be retarded by Corporate influence and patchwork legislation, it must ultimately prevail and become the law of the land. ^ H. TEAPE & SON, PKINTEES, TOWER-HILL, LONDON.