A letter from a physician in town to his friend in the country : concerning the disputes at present subsisting between the fellows and licentiates of the College of Physicians in London.

  • Daniel Cox
Date:
1753
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Credit: A letter from a physician in town to his friend in the country : concerning the disputes at present subsisting between the fellows and licentiates of the College of Physicians in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    io A Phyfcian in Town the members of the college, not in the lead warranted by the charter, between fuch as have degrees from Oxford or Cam¬ bridgewho dile themfelves fellows, and in Latin fccii 5 and fuch as are by them filled licentiates^ or permiffi, confiding of graduates from both Britijh and foreign univerfities, and others admitted by the college. The former have by degrees af- fumed to themfelves the whole govern- ment of the college, the power of making laws, and difcharging all the offices of dig¬ nity and truft therein, and alfo of impo-, fing molds and fines on the latter at their pleafure. The latter are excluded from all offices in the college, have no votes in, nor are allowed to be prefent at the comitia, yet are compelled to pay larger fines on their admiffion, and an annual tribute for the ufe of the college, which the fellows a- Ipne are benefited by. It has been mentioned neverthelefs as a matter of wonder and furprize, that the licentiates are uneafy in their fituation! Have they not, fay the fellows, free liber¬ ty to pradiie as well as the fellows ? Are they not exempt from parifh offices,, mi¬ litia, juries, &c. ? Nay, are not they freed' from fevetal very troublefome offices which the
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