A letter to the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, bart., M.P. ... on medical registration, and the present condition of the medical corporations / by Emeritus.

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1852
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    its diploma should be, what it was originated and intended for, viz., an honorary distinction In surgery only, without any right to practise generally, to which latter purpose it has been, and con- tinues to be very extensively and illegally applied. 3. Apothecaries' Hall, consisting of a Board of Examiners, members, and licentiates, and as contemplated by the Act (clauses defective of assistants) with a master and two wardens, professors of chemistry, botany, and materia medica. Note.—Members of the Hall are those who constitute the incorporated Society, and participate in the profits from the trade, wholesale and retail, in drugs and chemicals, carried on by the Company, they are few in number, and from this very limited body must the examiners by their Act of Parliament be chosen, conse- quently, they have never been the ornaments of the profession, or distinguished themselves by important discoveries in medicine, etc., or by works of deep scientific research; and if such persons had ever been desirous of the honor of being examiners, the Legislature has effectually prevented it by excluding licentiates, and limiting the extent of selection to members only, to which powerful body, and not the governing authority of the Company, is the blame attributable. Apothecaries' Company, London, is the only English Corpo- ration that has the legal power of protecting their members in the exercise of their profession, its operation is limited to England and Wales, and extends over medical and surgical cases ; physicians, and pure surgeons, being ivnable to recover by legal process their fees, which are regarded merely as honorary gratuities. The exa- mination at the Hall, is strict and practical, forms an efficient protection to the public against ignorance, and constitutes in England, the great anxiety of medical students, who generally regard the examination of the London College of Surgeons, with a very different kind of apprehension. 4. University of London. ] Consisting of Bachelors 5. University of Oxford. I and Doctors of Medi- G. University of Cambridge. cine. 7. University of Durham.—In suspemi.