A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men / by James Greenwood ; together with a preface and a chapter on the law relating to lunacy practice by L.S. Forbes-Winslow.

  • Greenwood James.
Date:
1882
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Credit: A concise handbook of the laws relating to medical men / by James Greenwood ; together with a preface and a chapter on the law relating to lunacy practice by L.S. Forbes-Winslow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    rilELlMlNAKY. ] ] the Bishops was taken away by a Royal Charter, dated September the 28th, 1518, whicli incorporated the College of Physiciansd This incorporation of the Royal College of Physicians was mainly obtained through the instrumentality of one Thomas Linacre,a noted physician of the time, by his influence and friendshijD with the then all-potent Cardinal Wolsey. The charter, after expressing the King’s hope that those men who profess physic, rather from the greed of gain than in good faith, to the great hurt and damage of credulous people, may be checked, and ignorant and rash prac- titioners punished, then proceeded to incorporate John Chambre, Thomas Linacre, Ferdinand de Victoria, Nicholas Halsewcll, John Francis, and Robert Yaxley, and all men of the same faculty in the City of London, as a perpetual community, Avith power to cboose each year a president, to make bye-laws and regulations for government of the college and all men of the faculty of physic in the City of London, and within seven miles of the same, and to choose annually four censors, to have correction of physicians within such limits, and of their medicines, and to punish the guilty by fine and imprisonment. The charter also provided that no person should be at liberty to practise physic within that radius, except he be licensed by the college, under a penalty of five pounds per month. All persons were likewise forbidden to practise beyond the seven * CoUefie of Pli>/sicians v. Leveit. 1 Ld. Rayin., 472 ; see Appendix I). 1—2