Minutes of meeting, Monday, April 25, 1864 [- Saturday, May 7, 1864] / General Council of Medical Education and Registration.

  • General Medical Council (Great Britain). Session (1864)
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[1864?]
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Credit: Minutes of meeting, Monday, April 25, 1864 [- Saturday, May 7, 1864] / General Council of Medical Education and Registration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7 In a pecuniary point of view, the registration of the non-registered Practitioners residing abroad, and the supply of Registers, would add considerably to the income of the General Council, and would, at the same time, be an act of justice to a large number of regularly-educated English Physicians and Surgeons. It would not be necessary to supply copies of the Register every year. Some difficulty might arise in carrying out these suggestions in the English Colonies, where Medical Schools already exist; but this objection cannot hold good on the Continent, to which English visitors resort in great numbers. I have the honour to be. Gentlemen, Your most obedient Servant, JOHN GASON. ] 2, Via della Meroede, Rome, July \st, 1863. Moved by Dr. Andrew Wood ; Seconded by Dr. Embleton ; and Agreed to: That the Eegistrar be directed to write to Mr. Gason, informing him that the Medical Council have no power to comply with his proposals. 8. Bead—The following Letter from the Eoyal National Life Boat Institution: - 14, John Street, Adelphi, London, October 17, 1863. Sir, I am directed to transmit to you 1?he accompanying circulars, copies of which this Institution is now circulating amongst some Members of the Medical Profession, with the view of eliciting their opinions on the relative merits of the plans of Dr. Marshall Hall and Dr. H. R. Silvester, for the Restoration of the Apparently Dead from Drowning. The Committee of the Royal National Life Boat Institution would feel much indebted to you if you would do them the favour to lay the same before the General Medical Council, with the view to their obliging the Society with their opinion on this very important subject. I have the honour to be. Sir, Your very obedient Servant, (Signed) RICHARD LEWIS, Secretary. Robert Bell, Esq.