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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    [ H5 ] • college the ftrong features of a tyrannical fyftem. By difuniting the common intereft of medical practitioners, it weakens their powers of ferving mankind j for, in proportion as it diminifhes the opportunities, it retards the progrefs of improve- ment. The brighteft talents, if not in alliance with the universities of England, are unavailing titles to pa- tronage from the corporate fociety of the college. The blaze of unconnected genius may by accident difplay its brilliancy, but it has to burft its ar- duous way through a denfe cloud of inveterate prejudice. Men of the greateft vigour of mind are often thus deprefled, and condemned to toil in obfeurity, excluded from all the legal privileges, to which talents and induftry, learning and vir- tue fairly and unequivocally entitle them ; whilft the grolfeft ignorance and empirlcifm, the raoft atrocious knavery in phyfic is tolerated and fuf- fered to roll on, in an uninterrupted courfe of luxurious profperity. When the caufe of all this is done away, when the dream of profeflional preferment is reftored to its original channel, and the fource of profeflional fame to its original purity, we may look forward to the accomplifhment of the great object, for which the faculty of phyfic was L incorporated;