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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    [ *35 ] tt known, or thought by them to be really fit and l< qualified, fuch by-laws require regulation *. We have feen, however, that the college in the firft ftatute de permifis, in the copy printed in 1765, acknowledge that there are many in the city and fuburbs, qualified both by their learn- ing and morals to prarjtife phyfic, whom their Jlatutes forbid them to admit into the order of can- didates or of fellows. The ftatute to be fubfti- tuted for this, in the propofed alterations of the committee f, was not lefs narrow than that of the moft barbarous period in the hiftory of the college. Then do not all fuch ftatutes interfere with their exercifing their own judgment ? Do not fuch ftatutes prevent them from receiving into their body perfons known by them to be really fit and qualified ? And ought not all fuch ftatutes to be regulated ? In 1768, Lord Mansfield faid, I think that every perfon of proper education, requifite learning and fkill, and poffeffed of all other due qualifications, is intitled to have a licenfe: and I think that he ought, if he defires it, to be admitted into the college J, and again ; Nothing * Rex v. Dr. Afkew & al\ Bur. R,p. F. iv, p. 2199. f About the year 1 768. X Rex v. Dr. Afl<c\v & al\ Bur. Rep. F. iy. p. 2202.