A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne].

William Browne

Date:: 1753

Credit: A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$ed for; from his engaging againft our college, in a caufe, which feems indeed fufficient to confound both (f). But, -this gentle hint will remind him, to diftinguifh, for the future, between phyfcians and empirics: more efpecially,, fince it is the end and excellence of his own profeftion, to make juft and accurate diftindions (gj. The next miftepraefentation, my Lords, was an attack upon our magna charta \ that original charter given us by our royal founder K. H. VIII, and confirmed by parlia¬ ment *: the great, and we make no doubt, the immovable foundation on which we ftand (h). This however, Mr. S. expeded to overthrow, by charging it with two abfur di¬ ties : abfurdities, that will be found, not in the text, but in the interpretation. The JirJl of thefe was: that by the claufey Concejfmus — collegia — quod nemo exerceat diElam faculta- tem niji ad hoc_admijfus ft per ejufdem— collegii lit eras —figdlatas; this very corporate body of legal praElifersy were yet refrained from pra&ifing, untill they fhould firjl li- cenfe themfelves under their own feaL But certainly, the in¬ corporating a perpetual college of phyficians, muft give them a perpetual power of praEUfing as phyficians, by their general charter. Even if there were no exprefs words for that purpofe, as there are in this cafe : Collegium perpetuum doElorum et gravium virorum qui medicinam—publice exercea?tt injlitui volumus atque imperamus. And that particular claufe, was both planely intended, and clearly expreffed, to refrain from praElifng, not the college, but all out of it, unlefs li- cenfedi {/) Si per get—quae volt dieere, ea quae non molt audiet. Ter. {g ) ——Vero diftinguerefalfum. Hor. { h ) Velut rupee, 'vajium quaeprodit in aequort Oh via ventorum furiis,. expojlaque ponto, Vim cutidiam atque minas perfert coelique marifque, Ipfa immota manens. -- Virg.$