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
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.
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![[ 3° ] from inveftigating their ftatutes, that the college of London, in proportion as the fcience of phyfic has been more generally cultivated and better underftood, have uniformly contributed to damp the ardour for medical improvement in Eng- land, by gradual encroachments upon the only legal road to profeffional honours, the moft direct to profeffional reward, they may be fairly fufpected of having loft fight of the fpirit of their charter, at leaft: and not any one can doubt but they have afted in diametrical oppofition to its letter alfo, if it can be proved, from thofe very ftatutes, that they have as gradually perverted the inten- tion of their charter, by an arbitrary imp6fition of undue reftraint upon many, whom that was granted to protect and encourage; and by a fu- pine and negligent toleration of others, whom alone it was defigned to ftigmatize and reprefs. m The earlieft ftatutes that I have been able to procure, in manufcript, are fome few, faid to have been made in July 1607. I have read likewife, in manufcript, Statute Collegii Medicorum Londincn- Jium, dated 1647; and fome few others, called Jlatata nova, faid to have been made in 1647 likewife, and confirmed in 1687. Thefe are the ftatutes that were publifhed in 1693. 1 nave read another copy, in manufcript, faid to have been ena&ed in 1736; and another of the date of 1752.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441546_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
