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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    [ !2° ] learned from the unlearned of thofe phyficians, whofe peculiar felicity it had never been to ftudy in, and to be acknowledged by either of the uni- verfities of England, unanimoufly determined to receive an order of honorary fellows*. Their motives for this, and the circumftances, under which the order was to be eftablifhed, were exprefTed in the following ftatute for that purpofe. * It was indeed prudently and juftly decreed by our anceftors, that thofe, who had received the higheft honours from the Univerfities of this kingdom of England, fhould alfo enjoy parti- cular privileges in the college, and obtain a place under the name of Fellows. But that they might not appear inattentive to the public good, they admitted many to praftife, who were reputed unfit to be adopted into the number of fellows, either becaufe they had not taken a doctor's degree, or were not fuffi- ciently learned, or for other fimilar caufes, i( and yet might be able to ferve the public and aflift mankind, at leaft in fome cures. « When * Such an order had exifted before, as may be feen by the lift of members of the college in their Pharmacopoeia of 1677. f See Appendix P.