Report of the Parliamentary Committee of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the Bill for regulating the profession of physic & surgery [proposed by Sir James Graham], with observations on medical education / [Sir John Gray].

  • John Gray
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1845
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Credit: Report of the Parliamentary Committee of the Loyal National Repeal Association on the Bill for regulating the profession of physic & surgery [proposed by Sir James Graham], with observations on medical education / [Sir John Gray]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE OF THE LOYAL NATIONAL EEPEAL ASSOCIATION ON THE BILL FOR REGULATING THE PROFESSION OF PHYSIC & SURGERY. [Resolved—That that the following communication from Dr. Gray, relative to the ‘ Bill for regulating the Profession of Physic and Surgery^' recently introduced into the House of Commons by Sir James Graham, be adopted as the Report of this Committee.”] In examining the provisions of a bill such as that now under consideration, purporting to regulate the prac¬ tice of Physic and Surgery, and to legislate definitively for a numerous and important profession, the bearing of its several clauses should be investigated with the utmost deliberation. It will be admitted that the medical profes¬ sion includes a large proportion of the intellect and educar- tion of these kingdoms, and that the efficient discharge of the duties connected with it, are of the deepest interest to the public. Before any of the provisions of this bill, there¬ fore, would receive the approval or disapproval of a body representing the public mind gf the kingdom, their opera¬ tion upon the profession as a whole—upon the several