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
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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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    [ 5*. ] lege had been eftablimed, was admitted a fel- low, five years prior to his incorporation at Oxford* : and Harvey and Mead, two of the three only phyficians, whofe fuperior merits have hitherto procured for their bufts a place in the college, graduated likewife at Padua; the third, the immortal Sydenham, diffatisfied with the opportunities of improvement afforded him at Oxford, ftudied at Montpelierf : and he was never a fellow of the college, but merely a licen- tiate. As then no rational pretence could be urged, at the time it was founded, for the conceflion of partial prerogative in the College of Phyfi- cians to the doftors of Oxford and Cambridge; and as, fmce the eftablifhment, the abfurdity of fuch diftinction has many times been manifefted by the fuperior merits of phyficians, who gradu- ated, or acquired their knowledge in other uni- verfities, fo is the inference clear, that the crown and parliament, confidently with their profefled objecl of public good, could never have intended to grant, by any charter, fo vaft and enormous a preference to the graduates of Oxford and Cam- bridge, * He graduated at Padua 1638; was a candidate of the college 1642 ; a fellow the year after, and was incorporated at Oxford, 1648. Impart. Enq. into the Legal Conjl. of the Coll. ofPhyf.f. 96. From Wood's Faji, v. ii. •|- Swan's- Life of Sydenham, from Default's Diflertation on Confumption.
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