Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The charter of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[ 4 ] ' Woodroofe, Francis Forefide, William Deafe, and James Henthorn, on Behalf of themfelves 1 and others, principal Surgeons of the City of Dublin, That the Regulation of the Profeifion . t'~T' ’ pf Surgery is of the utmoft Importance to the Publick, and highly neceffary to the Welfare of Mankind, and that the Publick fuftains great Injury from the Defe&s in the prefent Syftem of Surgical Education in our Kingdom .of Ireland, and that the regularly educated Sur- geons of the City of Dublin, in our Kingdom of Ireland, (who are become a numerous and confiderable Body) find themfelves incompe- tent (from the want of a Charter) to eflablifh. a liberal and extenfive Syftem of Surgical Education in our faid Kingdom. And the Pe- titioners, by their faid Petition, having prayed that we would be gracioijfly pleafed, by Let- ters Patent under our Great Seal ol our faid Kingdom of Ireland, to incorporate the faid Petitioners and others hereinafter particularly pientioned. His iVIajefty’s .Approbation thereof. And we being gracioufly pleafed to ap- prove 0f the faid Inftitution, and to provide that a due and feafonable Regulation may be made,, and that an apt, proper and legal Corporation may be conftituted and eftablilhed in our faid City of Dublin, of regular able, ' ■ - • and -t »i * %](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28041082_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
