The touchstone of medical reform : in three letters, addressed to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, bart., M.P. / by Joseph Henry Green.

Date:
1841
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    vide an adequate number of competent practitioners to supply the needs of the community, the final aim should be that of providing the requisite encourage- ments for evolving the highest attainments and great- est excellence. It is in this spirit, then, that we draw attention to the necessity of establishing a standard of education, which in every sense of the word may be deemed liberal, and without entering here into details which would be out of place, we propose that the candidate for the Fellowship of the College, 1st. Should have at- tained at least twenty four years of age, though the great and undeniable advantage of a lengthened edu- cation are such that the age of twenty six years would be doubtless a preferable qualification :—2nd. Should have graduated in Arts at one of the British Universities, or should show by an examination for that purpose a due proficiency in those branches of study, which that graduation implies, though the Metropolitan Colleges now offer all the requisite faci- lities for providing the qualification proposed :—3rd. Should be provided with sufficient testimonials of his moral characterQXi&coii&MCt:—4th. Shouldbesubjected to examinations for ascertaining his professional quali- fications, which might consist, 1st. Of his acquain- tance with the writings of those authors, who mark the great epochs of the history of medicine; 2. In Anatomy and in Vhysiology, human and compar- ative ; — 3. Pathology ; — 4. Therapeutics, especi- ally surgical, or what is commonly called the prac-