A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee.

Date:
1813
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Credit: A letter to Sir Francis Milman, Bart. M.D. President of the Royal College of Physicians, on the subject of the proposed reform in the condition of the apothecary and surgeon-apothecary, with an appendix containing the correspondence between the general committee and the three corporate medical bodies, by one of the committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XXAl competent knowledge by some regular medical edoca- tion ; , , That there is no existing Law to prevent persons practising in any or all of the abovfe branches with- out any proper medical education 5 and great num- bers of persons therefore in every part of the kingdom assume the character, and exercise the functions of the Apothecary, Surgeon-Apothecary, and Practitioner in Midwifery, who are wholly ignorant and utterly incom- petent to the exercise of the duties of the Profession, and the safety and the health of the Community is thereby greatly endangered, and the general character of the Profession disgraced and brought into disrepute, and the interests of your Petitioners greatly injured : That in consequence of this degradation of the character and serious injury to the intere^ of the pro- fessions of Apothecary, Surgeon-Apothecary, and Practitioner in Midwifery, few Apprentices are now obtained, and the general state of the Profession is progressively becoming worse : ! . That the Medical Departments attached* to His- Majesty’s Army and Navy, which have been princi- pally supplied with Practitioners brought up under those Members of the Profession, have already suffered and are likely still more to suffer t That it is essential to the preservation of the charac- ter of the Profession, and to the interest of the Com- munity at large, that provision should be made for* remedying the above evils : * That your Petitioners could not apply to this Honourable House upon a subject of such extensive influence upon the interests of the Profession and.Pub- lic, without communicating with every part of tl»e kingdom, and also particularly with the College of