Medicine and the public / by S. Squire Sprigge.

  • Squire Sprigge
Date:
1905
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    versities, for all the examiners would be graduates of universities, M.D.’s as well as F.R.C.P/s, M.Ch.’s as well as F.R.C.S.’s. The corporations would thus come to consist of the most learned and representative men—young and old—in the medical profession, and, indeed, in an automatic way, would become a sort of Academy of Medicine. Why should they not undergo this transformation ? Why should not the Royal Colleges in each dominion of the kingdom be the Academy of Medicine for the country ? Now we are in the realms of imagination, doubtless, and yet this piece of evolution seems to me to follow logically and easily upon the delegation to the corpor¬ ations of the examining function, while it responds undoubtedly to an admitted want. The waste of time, money, and endeavour that is implied in the multiplication of medical societies in London alone is enormous, and this fact is now being recognised by a strong movement towards amalgamation. A scheme is under the consideration of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, the Medical Society of London, and other associations, designed to this end. It may be planned to serve the needs of the scientific world for many years to come, but we can none the less conceive it as only preparatory to the formation of a real British Academy of Medicine rising under the joint endeavour of the Royal Colleges and corporations. The Colleges would be the most natural centres in which a learned body—or groups of learned bodies—could hold meetings j nowhere better or more aptly could libraries and museums be housed, and the walls of the Colleges would form the natural background for the portraits of eminent
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