Report and address, delivered by the President [Nicholas Romayne], to the Medical Society of the County of New-York; together with the charter of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in the city of New-York / Published by order of the Society.

Date:
1807
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Credit: Report and address, delivered by the President [Nicholas Romayne], to the Medical Society of the County of New-York; together with the charter of the College of Physicians & Surgeons in the city of New-York / Published by order of the Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘The members of the legiflature, as well as the medical gentlemen. whom I had the pleafure to meet in Albany, were informed by me of the grateful fentiments which my me- dical brethren of the county of New-York would always en- _ tertain towards the honourable the legiflature of the ftate, and efpecially thofe enlightened men by whofe atten- tion to'the public good, and the intereft and honour of the profefiion, the act had been obtained for incorporating: medical focieties for the purpofe of regulating the prac- tice of phyfic and furgery in this ftate—they confidered that act of the legiflature as among the firft efforts made in this country to reduce medicine to a regular {cience, by ‘invefting the privileges of medical men, in the body of the members of the profeflion—that the eftablifh- ment of the College of Phyficians in London during © the reign of Henry the Eighth, was the firft act which raifed the reputation of the medical profeflion in Britain, by taking the government of that profeffion out of the hands of colleges and of the clergy; who, in lefs enlightened times, had been invyefted with the fame. In like manner the Medical Society of the county of New-Y ork, cherith- ed the hope that by an union with the other medical foci- eties of the flate, and a prefervation of the rights gran- ted them by the legiflature, the medical profeffion would be improved, and its members might, by their ufefulnefs, gain the refpect and efteem of their fellow-citizens.