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

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    uneducated and dishonest pretenders to medical skill and knowledge. The Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons would then respectively regulate, each its practical department of the profession. They would, in boards instituted for that purpose, examine into the qualifications of all candidates; the license of the doctor in medicine would be grounded on the examinations of the medical faculty; that of the fellow or master in surgery, on examinations by the surgical faculty; and the general practitioner or licentiate in physic and surgery, would submit his claims to both faculties; and the admission for all would be granted under the authority of the govern- ing Council of the profession. It will be recollected, however, that a third board or faculty will be required, that of midwifery/, in the practice of which competent skill and conduct are not less imperatively required than even in medicine and surgery, and for the regulation of which at pre- sent, unfortunately, no provision exists. No difficulty can be however anticipated in selecting persons of ability and eminence, who might constitute a board for determining the qualifications of those desirous of obtaining a license to practise obstetric medicine, or of those who require it as an additional qualifica- tion, and intend to become Licentiates in medicine, surgery, and midwifery. We have thus provided in our plan, for three de- partments or faculties, each with its special office, and adequately constructed for determining the quali- 1 fications of those requiring admission to membership