Medical reform : a letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne with the outlines of a Bill for regulating the practice of surgeon-apothecaries and chemists and druggists ... and a plan for suppressing uneducated practitioners ... / by Martin Sinclair.
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- [1840?]
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Credit: Medical reform : a letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne with the outlines of a Bill for regulating the practice of surgeon-apothecaries and chemists and druggists ... and a plan for suppressing uneducated practitioners ... / by Martin Sinclair. 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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![only to register the Medical Practitioners and Druggists in his own County, the registration of the whole empire could be effected in one or tivo weeks: accurate lists of the Medical Practitioners and Druggists in each County would then be pub- lished and advertised in the London, Dublin, and Edinburgh Gazettes, by the respective Clerks of the Peace of the different Counties, and these lists would serve as legal evidence in courts of law as to any person’s right to practise Medicine and Surgery, or to carry on the business of Chemist and Druggist: the season of the year for effecting the registration is also another point -not undeserving of attention, and I have therefore proposed that all Diplomas, Licenses, &c., shall be registered with the Clerks of the Peace on or before the First of October in every year, and that the lists, duly certified under the hands of the Clerk of the Peace, be published and advertised in the Gazette on or or before the First of November following. It is, perhaps, un- necessary to inform your Lordship that the Medical Year, if I may so call it, in Universities, Colleges, and Medical Schools, commences on the First of October, and therefore, that period annually brings to the recollection of every Practitioner in the : country the opening of the different Medical Schools, and would naturally bring in its train the remembrance of the Medical Registration. Again, permission is given under the Bill to ( any person to publish copies of the certified lists of Practitioners ! and] Druggists, and from the period of the year at which the ■ registration is to be made, ample opportunity would be afforded ' to those who are in the practice of publishing Medical Alma- nacks and other works of that nature, at the beginning of every i year, to transcribe into their pages the certified lists of any particular county, or of the whole country, as might best suit their views or the wishes of their readers. Practitioners who weie licensed to practise after the beginning of October in any 3 year, and Practitioners who removed from one county to another ' shortly after the annual registration, might be registered, and [ their names published in a supplemental list in the Gazette; } and it may be a question whether the whole expense of this f. supplemental registration and publication ought to be defrayed by the respective persons registered, or whether the ordinary tee, payable for registration at the beginning of each medical year, only should be payable. Tins leads me to offer a few observations on the Fees that ought to be paid for registration, and on the expense that will oe incurred m carrying the scheme into operation : for the mere](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21935488_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
