Report of the fourteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association, held at Norwich, Aug. 19 and 20, 1846. President John Green Crosse.

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1846
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Credit: Report of the fourteenth anniversary meeting of the Provincial Medical & Surgical Association, held at Norwich, Aug. 19 and 20, 1846. President John Green Crosse. 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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    mons. I submit to the Committee, whether they should not draw up a petition to send by this night’s post, praying that the bill for the registration of medical practitioners should pass. This is a question simple in itself, and which does not involve any of the com- plicated questions that must be attended to, and which will require long continued consideration. This one point is the most essential of all, and it is a point about which, in the profession generally, there is little difference of opinion. I think that the Committee might at once send a petition, praying for the bill to pass. I should like to know what is the opinion of this meet- ing on the subject. Perhaps, as we meet again at eight o’clock, the Committee will decide upon it in the mean time, and then the first thing to be done would be the adoption of that petition by the meeting, in order that it be presented to the House of Commons. The President having put the motion, declared it carried. It was then moved by Dr. Ranking, of Bury St. Edmund’s, “ That this Committee consist of the following gentlemen :—Dr. Lyon, of Manchester; Mr. Soden, of Bath; Mr. Martin, of Reigate; Dr. Chambers, of Colchester; Mr. Bree,of Stowmarket; Dr. Radford, of Manchester; Mr. Norman, of Bath.” Mr. Pitt, of Norwich, seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Bree, of Stowmarket, hoped that it would be perfectly understood, that the petition should be pre- pared for the post that evening. The President said it was an important resolution, and he had no doubt the Committee, unless they found it impracticable, would report upon the subject that evening. They would enter upon their duties with the understanding that the meeting requested this to be done.