The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth.

  • F. H. Bosworth
Date:
[1898]
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Credit: The doctor in old New York / by F.H. Bosworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inhabiting the said City who have been persuaded to be¬ come their Patients have been great sufferers thereby ; For preventing such abuses for the future, “ Be it Enacted by his Honor, the Lieutenant Governor, & the General Assembly, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That from & after the Publication of this Act, no Person whatsoever shall practice as a Physi¬ cian or surgeon in the said City of New York before he shall first have been examined in Physickor Surgery and approved of and admitted by one of His Majesty’s Council, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the King’s Attorney General and the Mayor of the City of New York for the time being, or by any three or more of them, taking to their assistance for such Examination such proper person or persons as they in their discretion shall think fit. And if any Candidate after due Examination of his learning and Skill in Physick or Surgery as aforesaid shall be approved and admitted to practice as a Physician or Surgeon, or both, the said Exam¬ iners, or any three or more of them, shall give under their Hands and Seals to the Person so admitted as aforesaid, a Testimonial of his Examination & Admission in the form following, to wit— u To All To Whom These ‘Presents Shall Come Or May Concern Know Ye “ That We whose names are hereunto subscribed in pur¬ suance of An Act of the Lieutenant Governor, the Council and the General Assembly, made and published at New York the-day of-in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and-Entitled AN ACT to regulate the Practice of Physick & Surgery in the City of New York, have duely Examined-of-Physician [or] Sur- geon [or] Physician and Surgeon [as the case may be] and having approved of his Skill have admitted him as a Physi¬ cian [or] Surgeon [or] Physician and Surgeon, to practice in the said Faculty [or] Faculties throughout this province of New York. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have subscribed our Names and affixed our Seals to the Instrument at New fIDebical ©rbinance of 1760
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