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 ] fult of a low Education) no Man of any Splrk can, or ever will condefcend to fubmit to. Noe to mention that one Condition perhaps of their ob¬ taining thefe Places is, that Flalf their Salary be paid to their Patron’s Friends, whom he has pro¬ mis’d to provide for (f. e.) according to the cant Phrafe, they are well faddled and will carry double. But perhaps I have gone too far, and have rous’d a Neft of Hornets.—With all my Heart, I fear not their buzzing, and I am fare they can¬ not fling me.—Yet, however, left any thing I have faid fhould be mifinterpreted, I defire thefe foreign Gentlemen to have a particular Regard to my true Meaning; which is not to opprefs or perfecute them, but to oblige them to convince the Publick of their real Abilities, by Handing the Teft of an Examination, and of being properly entered in the annually printed Lift of the College of Phyficians:—to which may be added a Sup¬ plement of all extra-Licentiates *, (/. e,) of fuch Perfons who pra(ftife in Places more than 7 Miles diftant from London, This is no unreafonable Call,-and fo far from an Impofition, that it is an Inftance of the moft remarkable Lenity of our Government, which permits even thefe Aliens to be put almoft on the fame Footing with the Members of our own Univerfities; notwithftanding the notorious Difference between their Degrees, Education, And here perhaps it may not be altogether fo¬ reign to the matter in hand, if I take notice of the Attempts lately made by the Surgeons, who have likewife affumed the Province of the Phyfi- cian, and vnth. a negligent Felicity call for Pen, Ink, and Paper, on every Occafion *, as if they were the moft able Men of Europe^ and equally ftrilled in the Properties of Medicines, as they D 2 pretend

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