Summary of Dr Crisp's Carmichael essay on medical reform and medical education : suggestions and conclusions as directed by Mr Carmichael under the three heads.

  • Crisp, Edwards, 1806-1882.
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[1870]
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    a very few of these have a single degree; and that the graduates of this University possess a larger number of medico-chirurgical diplomas than those belonging to any other University iu the United Kingdom (see page 31). That more than nineteen-twentieins of the above-named practitioners have no voice in the management oi t\eir own affairsfior a vote in the Cor- porate body to which they belong^ That the vast majority of votes, when allowed, as at all the Colleges of Physicians, the College of Surgeons, (in the majority of instances,) the Edinburgh College of Surgeons, and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons at Glasgow, are bought by the payment of sums varying from ten to fifty guineas; in other examples the affairs of the Corporation are governed by a small self-elected clique, that have an interest in the sale of the diplomas and in the division of profits. That the great body of the profession, ninety-nine in a hundrptf) although they have been praying for many years for a representativeVfojrm of govern- ment, have had no voice in the election of the Medical ComreU ; and that in this Council the general practitioners of the United KjjfgdoiXare scarcely represented. / That this Council is composed Vlmpst exclusively of men who are con- nected with the Corporations, and Mve a direct interest in continuing the system of self-election and irresponsible government in these Corporations, that the great majority of the':members of the profession have so long protested against: and that the President of this Council and the Secretary in their Parliamentary evidence, both objected to a general system of medical registration. \ / That the Council is composed oXeyght Englishmen, nine or more Scotch- men, and seven Irishmen; the Scotch, in proportion to the population, forming about 1 in 333,333, this IrWi 1 in 857,142, and the English I in 2£ millions! ( \ That more than half of the members of this Council have only one medical or one surgical qualification. . / That in 1867, in the United Kihgddm, 929 students were registered; for England 459, for Ireland 212, and fifosScotland 258; and the teachers and examiners amount to 792.* / That the annual Frizes at the academy of Medicine and the Academy of Sciences of Paris, and at other institutions, amount to more than £8,000. yearly ; those in the United Kingdom have not equalled £150. a-year. That in the Houses of Parliament the medical profession is represented by only twof medical practitioners, whilst both Houses are crowded with mem- bers of the legal profession ; and the Church, directly in the upper House, and indirectly in the lower, has a numerous staff of interested advocates.. That in the legal profession (and the same may be said of the Church) the rewards, pensions, and salaries, amount to an enormous sum yearly (£785,828.J, whilst to the members of the medical profession is meted out a miserable pittance. * Many examiners and teachers : some, too, lecture and teach two or more subjects. + One oi these, Dr. Brady, has done his utmost, I beliove, to benofit the profession ; but what is he against so many ? [I did not know at this time that Sir J. Gray and Mr. Vanderbvl were members, ]