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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    parties who have passed the days of youth, and wish to enter the profession of medicine ; it forms an insurmountable barrier to their desires, forces them against their inclinations to break the law, or to abandon the profession ; and its speedy removal is expected. 6th Defect. The limited examination of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, as it embraces only anatomy, physiology, and surgery, it enables candidates to obtain a diploma; under the sanction of which, without having passed any examination on many important branches of medical science, they impose upon the ignorance and credulity of the public in medical matters, and though imperfectly educated, and only half examined, they practice every branch of the profession, even in this country, but particu- larly in the Colonies, and on board of emigrant ships, to which they should never be appointed on the strength of the diploma of the London College ; if this had been attended to, the surgeons attached to those vessels would have been of a more educated, and consequently superior class, and might have checked the dis- graceful scenes reported to have lately occurred on board of those ships. It also has the injurious tendency of lowermg the standard of medical education, and of causing many idle and ignorant students from Scotland and Ireland, to pass for Surgeons the College in England, who are tempted by the reduced scale of examination to avoid the more extensive one of the Scotch and Irish Colleges; and it is even said that their rejected candidates have subsequently passed, and found almost immediate admission into, the London College. THE REHEPIAL MEASURES AXD THEIR OBJECT. 1st Object should aim at establishing uniformity in the Medical Corporations of the throe divisions of the kingdom, as they differ most in Scotland, where there is no Apothecaries' Hall; it is considered that the introduction there of a similar company will effect that object without any occasion for doing away with the
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