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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
36/264 page 24
![I 24 THE LAWS rtELATIlSG TO MEDICAL MEN. quacks, wkose only recommendation may be some foreign and worthless diploma. The case alluded to is that of Carpenter v. Hamilton which occurred about two years ago, and is reported in the thirty-seventh volume of the new series of the Laio Times, page 157. Here a man named John Hamilton, the same the author of certain infamous pamphlets, with which, at times, the streets of the metropolis have been flooded, was charged, nnder sec- tion 40 of the Medical Act, 1858, for wdlfully and falsely pretending to be a doctor of medicine, and thereby implying that he was registered under the Act and recognised by law as a physician. The respondent kept a shop, where he dispensed medicine and gave advice; he had a diploma in the window, in which he was described as ‘ John Hamilton, Doctor of Medicine of the Metropolitan Medical College of New York,^ and so he held himself out to the woidd. The magistrate reported that it was not satisfactorily proved that he was not entitled so to describe himself, and dismissed the complaint. It was held afterwards on appeal before Baron Cleasby and Justice Hawkins, that the decision of the magistrate was right, as the onlj’- evi- dence of any false pretence was that the respondent pretended to be what he really was, and the question was one of fact for the magistrate's decision rather than one of law for the Court. The British Bharmacopoeia}—Though a notice of ’ ‘ T]ie Britisli Pharmacopeia,’ published under the authority of the Medical Acts, is iuteiuled to afford to medical men and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21701829_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
