A general view of the establishment of physic as a science in England, by the incorporation of the College of Physicians, London : together with an inquiry into the nature of that incorporation : in which it is demonstrated, that the exclusion of all physicians, except the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, from the corporate privileges of the College, is founded in usurpation, being contrary to the letter and spirit of its charter / by Samuel Ferris, M.D. F.S.A. &c.

  • Samuel Ferris
Date:
1795
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Credit: A general view of the establishment of physic as a science in England, by the incorporation of the College of Physicians, London : together with an inquiry into the nature of that incorporation : in which it is demonstrated, that the exclusion of all physicians, except the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, from the corporate privileges of the College, is founded in usurpation, being contrary to the letter and spirit of its charter / by Samuel Ferris, M.D. F.S.A. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *°4 ] by feveral of the leading people in the college; f< that it was agreed to in two comitia by a con- fiderable majority; but that in the third it was rejected, as was fuppofed, through the u influence of the Englifli univcrfities *. Notwithstanding the licentiates are faid to have been neither active in promoting, nor in conduct- ing this proportion, yet there, was very foon af- terwards, another ftatute enacted, which, Hill more than ever, diminifhed their expectation of candid and reafonable treatment from the college. The Statutum alternm De Candidatis, made its firft ap- pearance among the ftatutes of 1752, two years after the proportion for admitting foreign gra- duates had been agitated in the college. It Hates, fas the ftatute concerning candidates, that it might be both confident with itfelf, and with (i the ftatute concerning fellows, clearly intended, that no one iliould be admitted into the order of candidates, who was not a doctor of phyfic of either the Univerfity of Oxford or Cambridge, although not fo expreffed in thefe very words : *f left any difpute mould arife on this fubject in « future, we enact and ordain, that no one fliall be admitted into the order of candidates, who ff is * A Letter from a Phyfician in Town to his Friend in the Country, &c. 1753. p. 18, and following,