An address to the College of Physicians, and to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; occasion'd by the late swarms of Scotch and Leyden physicians, &c. who have openly assum'd the liberty (unlicens'd from the College, &c.) of practising physick in England, contrary to the privileges of our universities, and to the charter granted to the College of Physicians in London. To which is added, a compleat list of all the regular physicians / By an impartial hand [Signed A.Z].

Date:: 1747

Credit: An address to the College of Physicians, and to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; occasion'd by the late swarms of Scotch and Leyden physicians, &c. who have openly assum'd the liberty (unlicens'd from the College, &c.) of practising physick in England, contrary to the privileges of our universities, and to the charter granted to the College of Physicians in London. To which is added, a compleat list of all the regular physicians / By an impartial hand [Signed A.Z]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[9] he mu ft twice defend three Qiieftlons in Logick, or Moral Philofophy, for three or four Hours, which is requir’d to render his Degree of Batchelor com^ pleat 5 afterwards he muft defend three Queftions in Natural Philofophy for two Hours, or make Ob* jedlions to three, under the Infpedion of one of the Procftors. He muft once defend three other Queftions likewife of any kind, and anfwer the Objedtions of fome Mafter of Arts. He is like¬ wife at the fame Time and Place obliged to an¬ fwer any Objedtions made to thofe Queftions, or to any other Queftions which any other Mafter of Arts chufes to difpute with him upon. He muft make two publick Declamations, and repeat them by heart in the Prefence of one of the Prodlors, fwearing that he has had no AfTiftance in the Com- pofition of them, either from Friends or Books. He muft read fix Lectures, three in Natural three in Moral Philofophy, of his own compofing in Latin^ each of which muft take up the greater Part of an Hour in the reading.—He muft be exa¬ mined by three Mafters of Arts, (as Candidates for a Batchelor’s Degree) in the Sciences of which the Statutes require him to be an Auditor *, which are. Geometry, Metaphyficks, Natural Philofo¬ phy, Opticks, Hiftory, Geography, Chronology, and in the Latin^ Greeks and * Hebrew Languages; during the Performance of any of thefe Exercifes the Prodlors may, and in feveral are obliged to attend ; if they judge the Candidates to be deficient in any refpedt, it is in their Power to make them undergo fuch Exercifes again, till their Perform^ ance is judged well done, * The Hehrenjo Examination is not much infifted on, as of late Years fenv learn it, except some PAETtcuxAn Stu¬ dents in Divinity. Before

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