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
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

    160/196 (page 136)
    [ ] et Nothing can make a man a fellow of the col- lege without the act of the college. The firft a£t to be done, by them, is their judging of the qualifications of the candidate. The admif- fion, into the fellowship, is an a£t fubfequent to that—The main end of the corporation is to keep up the fuccefiion, and it was to be kept up by the admiflion of fellows after examina- tion. The power of examining, and of ad- mittirig after- examination, was not an arbi- trary power, but a power coupled with a truft. They are bound to admit every perfon, whom, upon examination, they think to be fit to be admitted within the defcription of the charter, and the act of parliament which confirms it. The perfon, who comes within that defcrip- tion, has a right to be admitted into the fel- lowlhip. He has a claim to feveral exemp- <c tions, privileges, and advantages, attendant upon admiffion into the fellowfhip : and not only the candidate himfelf, if found fit, has a perfonal right, but the public has alfo a right •< to his fervice, and that not only as a phyfician, but as a cenfor, an elea, as an officer in the ec offices to which he will, upon admiflion, be- come eligible*. Can there, poflibly, be given an opinion more dec i live Rexv. Dr. Alkew &al'. Bur. Rej>. F. iv.p, 2196.