A justification of the right of every well educated physician of fair character and mature age, residing within the jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be admitted a fellow of that corporation, if found competent, upon examination, in learning and skill : together with an account of the proceedings of those licentiates who lately attempted to establish that right; including the pleadings of the counsel, and the opinions of the judges, as taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney / by Christopher Stanger, M. D. Gresham professor of physic, and physician to the Foundling Hospital.

  • Stanger, Christopher, 1759-1834.
Date:
1798
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Credit: A justification of the right of every well educated physician of fair character and mature age, residing within the jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be admitted a fellow of that corporation, if found competent, upon examination, in learning and skill : together with an account of the proceedings of those licentiates who lately attempted to establish that right; including the pleadings of the counsel, and the opinions of the judges, as taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney / by Christopher Stanger, M. D. Gresham professor of physic, and physician to the Foundling Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It has been decided that a physician, whatever his talents, education, attain- ments, and character may be, even a Sy- denham or a Boerhaave, has no right to an examination of his qualifications for incor- poration into the college of physicians, un- less he has obtained a doctor's degree at Oxford or Cambridge, or unless (after he has completed liis thirty-sixth year, and been seven years a licentiate) he be pro- posed through the favour of a fellow on one particular day in the year, at a comitia ma- jora, and be also approved by a majority of the fellows present. It has been determined, that the a,dven- titious circumstance of local study, eveii in the most inadequate medical schools in Europe, gives not only a prior right, but, a right, which operates virtually as an ex- clusive privilege to be examined for the fellowship. This decision is also final in law, with re- gard to the generiil right. From the stage of the process in which it was given, it even precludes an appeal to the House of Lords.