A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner.

Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forniance, so contradictory to its principle (or at least what it avowed to be its principle) in its clauses, the provisions of it so little accorded with the preamble, and in short, the whole of the bill was such a jumble of absurdities, that he could only consider it a farce, a downright farce, not fit to go forth to the world as a performance sanctioned and approved by so grave an as- sembly, as that which he was now addressing. Instead of amending the Bill, as advised by Lord Thurlow, and again requesting the sanction of parliament, the college moved no further in the prosecution of the matter till the year 1800, when it obtained a charter from the king in council: and at the present moment, the very enactments of the bill, which were so obnoxious to the ge- neral body of surgeons, and which gave rise to its rejection in the House of Lords, are included in the bye-laws of the college, and in full ope- ration. The members of the council, twenty-one in number, have entire controul over the property of the college, are irresponsible and self-elected, care being taken to exclude all from the offices of the college, whose hands are defiled by the prac- tice of pharmacy or midwifery. They require from all candidates for their di- ploma, certificates of having attended lectures on medicine, chemistry, pharmacy, botany, mid-