Volume 1
Report from the Select Committee on Medical Education : with the minutes of evidence, and appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Education.
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Medical Education : with the minutes of evidence, and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![John Ydloly, Esq. M.D. 21 April 1834. Edward Harrison, Esq. M.D. 23 April 1834. adoptentur, vel quod natione non sint Britanni, vel doctoratus gradum non adepti fuerint, vei non satis docti, aut aetate et gravitate provecti sint, vel alias consimiles ob causas, et tamen Reipublicae inservire et saluti huminum prodesse possint, saltern in nonnullis curationibus, de his ordinamus et statuinius, ut post examinationes debitas et approbationem Praesidis et Censorum, periniltantur ad praxin, quaindiu se bene gesserint.” I say this was, as far as I know, the original bye-law under which this degraded body of permissi practised. The terms were of little con- sequence when incorporation at the English universities was allowed, because there was a ready and obvious mode of escaping from the order; but they raised the qualification afterwards, and made use of language differing from the present bye- law'; but they still maintained, instead of taking a new and more respectable title, the old title oipermissi, or permitted or allowed to do a particular thing, though the degradation of this bye-law was done away. [^Addecl by the Witness on correcting his Evideiice.'] “ I have much pleasure in stating my belief, that the physicians of this country have contributed largely to the revival of letters ; that such physicians have most of them had their education at English universities ; and that to these circumstances may be attributed, in a considerable degree, the estimation in w'hich they are held. Something has been derived from the association at the universities of the middle orders of society, from which physicians anfl other professional men are principally chosen, with the higher. It appears to me that a sufficient inducement and reward for obtaining such education is to be found in the additional credit which the possessors of higher attainments in literature and science receive with the profession and the public, and in the habits of acquaintance with the higher orders of society, which are so advantageous to a person settling as a physician in London, and which have frequently advanced such a person to fame and fortune at an unusually early period of life.” Mercnrii, 23 die Aprilis, 1834. HENRY WARBURTON, ESQUIRE, IN THE CHAIR. Edward Harrison, Esq., m. d., called in ; and Examined. 4401. WHERE did you graduate in medicine?—In Edinburgh. 4402. When?—In 1784, I wrote my Thesis de Opio. 4403. Where did you begin to practise medicine ?—At Louth, in Lincolnshire. I remained a practitioner there and at Horncastle, till I came to London; which was a few days before the death of George the Third, in January 1820. 4404. When did you begin to practise medicine in Lincolnshire?—Perhaps in 1779. I had been abroad in Paris, and in other parts of the Continent, prosecuting my professional studies, before that. 4405. You have continued to practise in London ever since that time?—I have been in London ever since. 4406. Did you, in the year 1806, enter into communication w'ith any of the medical corporations on the subject of medical reform ?—I made communications to the nine medical corporations, and got answers from all of them. 4407. When did you begin to agitate the question of medical reform?—It was in the autumn of 1804, at a meeting of the Benevolent Medical Society of Lin- colnshire, held at Horncastle, that I was requested to institute an inquiry into the state of the medical practice in that county. At their request, and,by the advice of Sir Joseph Banks, I visited London, to solicit the metropolitan faculty, and especially the medical corporations, to lend their assistance, and take the lead in the business, I had several conferences with Sir Lucas Pepys, president of the College of Physicians, with Sir George Baker, with the master of the College of Surgeons, and with several other distinguished members of the faculty. In the autumn of 1805 meetings on the state of the medical practice were held in London at the house of Sir Joseph Banks, which were attended by Mr. Foster, master of the College of Surgeons, the examiners of the same College, some censors of the College of Physicians, and several very eminent physicians, surgeons, and apothe- 0 caries.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28406680_0001_0320.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
