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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    [ '3' ] mitted by our college to pra&ife phytic in <£ London, and feven miles round, and fhall have completed his thirty-fixth year; it mail be al- lovvable for any one of the fellows to propofe him, for examination, at the Comitia major a ordinaria held the day after Michaelmas-day; if the majority of the fellows prefent affent u to it, he ihall be examined (according to the under-mentioned form) at the three following ordinary comitia majora by the prefident or vice prefident, and cenfors; and if at each examination he fhall be approved by a ma- <c jority of the fellows prefent at thofe Comitia, he may be propofed for admiflion into the order of fellows, by the prefident or vice-prefident, at the comitia majora immediately fucceeding, and if a majority of fellows then prefent af- fent, he may be, as foon as convenient, ad- mitted ; if neither the law of the land, nor any Jiatnte of our college, render him ineligible to receive that favour. Thus, after a licentiate has given every re- quifite proof of his being fully competent to prac- tife phyfic, in all cafes, as a phyfician, in three diftinct examinations at the college, to obtain a licenfe; and after he has added to his acquire- ments feven years experience in attual practice ; it may be allowable, if he be 36 years of age, to K. z propofe