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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    26 A Phyfician in Town lege*, inftead of thus flying in the face of their chief benefaitors, one would think that if the laws of the land had obliged the college not to receive any but the graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, the fellows them- felves, more efpecially thofewho had degrees from abroad, upon principles of gratitude as well as juftice, would have joined the li¬ centiates in folliciting the legiflature to re¬ move fuch a reflraint; and not have en¬ deavoured to enforce fuch abfurd conditions, when the numbers of the fellows are de- creafing, and the proportion of licentiates daily increafing: a conduit which I think cannot eafily be explained, upon any other principles, than the narrow fordid ones of Monopoly. About the time the ftatute was made that occafioned thefe reflections, uncom¬ mon diligence had been ufed to find out, and to fuminon either formally, by the bea¬ dle, * Such as Thomas Lin acre, cJohn Chamhi e, Fertzando de Vdloria, c]o£lors of Padua, founders of the college ; John Caius, doctor of Bonosiia, Matthew Lift er of Bafil, Sir Theo¬ dore Mhy erne M Montpelier, Baldwin Harney of Leyden, Sir George Ent of Padua, Id m Harvey of Padu , Daniel Whift- ler or Le;deny[ Sir John Micklethwaite of Paaua, George Ro¬ gers of Padua, Chrijlopher Bathurji of Padua, Theodore de Vaux of Padua, Robert Morijon of Angers, and Dr Richard Mead of Padua, betides a great number of others, fome of whom are dill ornaments to the college; and the laft difpenfa- tfcry, the bed the college ev-er publimed, was chiefly compo- fed by Leyden graduates, and digested by a phyfician who has no connexion with the college.
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