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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    derftanding to fubmit to. To fummon gentlemen, fome of them in no refpedt their inferiors, to hear a page or two of ftatutes read over 5 to negledt the moft important duties of life to themfelves and their fel¬ low creatures, for no other purpofe than to do homage to a few of the fellows, is a facrifice that no reafonable man would de¬ mand, or willingly fubmit to. Thus you fee that corporate bodies, when they think themfelves fub]ected to no controul or vifitation, do not always make equity the rule of their condudt; and that particular members will give into unjuftifi- able meafures, when the blame is to reft on the whole body. That the decifions of the college with regard to the qualifications of fuch as offer to ferve the publick in a medical capacity ought to be irreverfibie is felf-evident ; they can have no fuperior. No one is fo good a judge of a phyfician’s abilities as a phyfician ; and no teftimonial is adequate to that of the college: to eredt a tribunal of any other faculty, fuppofe of the law, would be juft as improper as to oblige the , lawyers or divines to procure their faculties from JVanvick-Lane: but in refpedt to the govern-
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