[Documents relating to James Gregory and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1805-07].

  • Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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[1807?]
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Credit: [Documents relating to James Gregory and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1805-07]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    upon what may‘be so uttered, the words should be taken down, and authenticated at the time. The opinion of (Signed) MAT. ROSS, F. JEFFREY. Edinburgh, 30th July, 1807. The College having taken into consideration the Reasons of Dis- sent presented at a former meeting by Dr Yule against the Vote of Censure passed on Dr Gregory, the same were ordered to be received and engrossed in the Minutes. [Follow the Reasons of Dissent by Dr Yule above referred to.] Reasons of Dissent from the Act of Censure passed on Dr Gregory by the Royal College of Physicians at the Meeting held upon the 26th of November last, 1806. 1st, Because whatever disagreeable consequences have already arisen, or may hereafter arise, from the agitation of the queries put by Dr Gregory to the College, might have been prevented by the College explicitly declaring, in answer to the leading queries, the object and meaning of the general Admonition to secrecy, given by the Council; this explanation every member of the College had a right to require, especially when it is considered, that the Admoni- tion, communicated gravely from the chair, evidently implied, that one or other of the members, either had acted, or was likely to act, in opposition to his duty. ' £d, Because this Admonition necessarily led to a more strict exa- mination into the meaning of the law itself, (Sect. 6. Art. 15. parag. 5.