Volume 2

Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain. With considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations. Including hints for improving the healing and veterinary arts. / By T. Champney.

Champney, Thomas, 1761-1816

Date:: 1797

Credit: Medical and chirurgical reform proposed, from a review of the healing art, throughout Europe, particularly Great Britain. With considerations on hospitals, dispensaries, poor-houses, and prisons; observations on the apothecaries late application to Parliament; and proposals for general legislative regulations. Including hints for improving the healing and veterinary arts. / By T. Champney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, ‘Tue privilege claimed by the Fellows te the College of Phy fitians, exclu~ — fively to regulate all the affairs, being now difputed by the Licentiates, and carried into the Court of King’s Bench to be determined ;—the Corporation of Surgeons having nearly been erected into a College, with the powers confirmed to twenty-one perfons, of exclnfively managing all the concerns, and fharing all the honours, and the jurifdi@tion extending only ten miles round London; but which: act, after pafling the Commons, has been ftayed in the Houfe of I rds till the 19th of May, on a mo- tion of his Grace the Duke of Bedford; to give time for pet Honers: againit it, tobe heard by: counfel; and the other furgeons of London having agreed to petition againft fuch an injurious bill, and having twice met and entered into a fub{cription for that purpofe ;—and the apothecaries of the me- tropolis, and throughout the kingdom, having lately fubfcribed and formed a Pharmaceutical Affociation, . for legally amending their prefent degraded fituation, a confiderable part’of which fub{cription ftill re- mains at a bankers—together confidered, renders the prefent a moft favourable time for obtaining general legiflative regulations, for every department of our profeflion throughout the kingdom;.and as the LecisLature; the Prorzssron, and the Pusiic: aT LARGE, are all highly interefted in forwarding fuch general regulations, (which has already been done generally, in all’ ‘the principal countries of Europe) nothing but the wxanimous and immediate efforts of the profeflion, din meeting, fubfcribing, and peti- tioning, by ftating grievances and propofing remedies, is now wanted to promote what nearly the whole country are interefted in feeing done. The objects to which the Legiflature’s attention fhould be called might, I- prefume, be fimilar to the following; which are, however, fubmitted for general confideration, rather than implicit adéption: 1, That the practice of every department of the healing art thould be legally regulated ; ; ‘the regula- tions to extend alike to all parts of the kingdom. 2. That a general mode of education, for all who prefcribe mafesites or operate on the human body, fhould be laid down by law, and no one allowed to oe | in . part of the kmgdotn, without: . having fo qualified. 3. That the fees, for prefcribing or operating, and. the eS for medicines or remedies, fhould be . legally afcertained; regard being had ‘to the diftance where, and hour when, fuch attendance fhould be required, or fuch remedies furnifhed. 4. That females, practifing midwifery, fhould have their mode & education prefcribed by law, and nurfes alfo required to qualify and obtain a licence to infure proper conduét. _5. That each County Hofpital fhould become a feminary for the general education of youth, in the profeffion, at leaft preparatory to further ftudies in Great Britain, or elfewhere; and fuch branches of chemifiry, botany, &c. as would tend to imprave agriculture an the arts, fhould alfo be generally taught there. 1 : 6. That all chemicals fhould be prepared only by fuch perfons, or at fuch public elaboratories as the law fhould allow, and that all recipes foould be made up, and medicines and drugs retailed ina like lega] manner, and difpenfatories for. By be, fargery,: and -yeterinary practice, printed at certain ftated periods, to pre- pare or compound bys aes ; .$

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