A short address to the professors of surgery throughout His Majesty's dominions, on the Bill lately brought into Parliament for erecting the Corporation of Surgeons in London into a College / by a Member of the Corporation.

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[1797]
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Credit: A short address to the professors of surgery throughout His Majesty's dominions, on the Bill lately brought into Parliament for erecting the Corporation of Surgeons in London into a College / by a Member of the Corporation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    and approved (agreeable to the 19th of Ilenry VII.) by the Lord Chancellor and two Judges. After the Surgeon's Com- pany had been Separated from that of the Barber's, the proper officers of the Corporation formed a code of bye-laws, orders, rules, &c. bearing date April 7th, 1748 : part of the 25th of this code ordains. That if any perfon fliall prac^ tife Surgery at any time hereafter, or hang out any fign profeffing to prae- **■ tife Surgery, without having been duly examined by the Court of Examiners, and having received the grand di- ploma, under the feal of the Company, fliall forfeit and pay to the ufe of the Company the fum of five pounds of lawful money for every month he fliaH fo continue to pra6life without fuch licence and authority/' Here, then, the privilege under difcuffion ftands or- dained by a bye-law, approved by the Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, and the Judges Lee and Willes; which flrongly corroborates
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