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
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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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![Sir H. Halford, Bart, M D. i8 March 1834. Wm. Macmkhael, Esq., M.D. 19 March 1834. 30 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE 422. Before the building of the college, how was that regulated?—It was, I be- lieve, under the same regulations. 423. On what ground did you exclude the licentiates from admission to the library ?—They were never excluded ; if they are desirous to viev/ any particular book or preparation, they may have access to it in the museum ; it is solely to save expense, that that is not done which we shall be able to do by and by ; there is every disposition to do it, but the College has laid out an enormous sum of money Mercurily 19° die Martiiy 1834. HENRY WARBURTON, ESQUIRE, IN THE CHAIR. William Macmkhael, Esq. called in; and Examined. 424. WHAT office do you now hold in the College of Physicians?—None. 425. What offices have you filled in succession?—I have been Censor, and I have been Registrar. 426. Have you been a Commissioner of Lunacy ?—I have. 427. Were you ever a member of the Vaccine Board?—As censor, I was. 428. Were you a member of the first Cholera Board?—I was a member of the Board of Health. 429. That is now dissolved ?—Yes. 430. You are one of the Physicians to the King?—I am. 431. Have you examined the Annals of the College with reference to the case of Dr. Wells, who was disappointed of being admitted to examination for a fellow- ship ?—Yes, I examined them occasionally. 432. Can you explain the circumstances of that case?—The substance of the entry in the annals is thus : Dr, Pitcairn, in June 1798, gave notice that he would propose at Michaelmas next. Dr. Wells to be examined as a fellow. 433. Are you aware that there are two periods at which he was proposed, one in 1797, the other in 1798 ; and that he w'as rejected at the tw'o periods on different grounds ?—1 have examined only one, I do not know of the other : the fact was, that Dr. Pitcairn gave notice that he would propose Dr. Wells at Michaelmas next to be examined as a fellow, but Dr. Pitcairn was absent on that day ; on which the College decided by ballot, that, according to the existing bye-laws, the proposal could not be made by another fellow, as his deputy : therefore Dr. Wells was never proposed. 434. Therefore you do find in 1798, Dr. Wells was never proposed?—No. \The Annals of the College for 1797 ^ere prodiieed.'] * 435. Will you turn to the minutes of the 30th of September 1797 ?—A motion was malle and seconded, that Dr. W. C. Wells having been seven years a licentiate, and of 36 years of age, should be proposed for examination by the College, in order to become a fellow', according to a clause in the statute Z)c Permissis ; but the pre- vious question having been then moved and seconded, that the above motion should be now put, the previous question was balloted for, and decided in the negative. 436. Will you look between the period of the 30th of September 1797 and the 30th of September 1798, and ascertain whether a bye-law was not passed by the College, making it requisite that previous notice of intention to propose a licentiate for examination by the College should be given?—It was ; the 2d of April 179^> a motion was made and seconded, that the following clause in the 13th chapter De Permissis be inserted in the said statute, after the words, ‘‘ eundem examinan- dum proponere,” w'hich was carried for the first time in the affirmative, viz. “ Dummodo prius (scilicet in comitiis majoribus ordinariis, postridie Nativitatis Divi Johannis Baptist® habitis) id se in animum suum induxisse palam enun- cieverit Collegio. Statuimus etiam, ut qui permissum aliquem examinandum pro- ponit, his utatur verbis : Liceat mihi proponere Presidenti et Collegio virum egregium A. B., qui annum ®tatis tricesimum sextum clausit, et qui ultra annos septem medicin® facultatem exercicit, ex quo tempore in permissorum numerum © admissus](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28406680_0001_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
