A letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, bart., M.P. ... : on medical registration and the present condition of the medical corporations / by Emeritus.

Date:
1851
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    MEDICAL REGISTRATION. Sir,—Medical Education, more extended in its pro- visions, and accompanied by greater stringency in its examinations ; a complete and well-arranged system of Medical Registration, with amendments in the laws by which the numerous Medical Corporations are governed and its members at present so dissatisfied, involving, as they do, principles and alterations much desired and urgently called for, as being of the greatest importance to the interests of the profession and the welfare of the public, and which have long occupied your serious and best attention without success, as also that of your pre- decessor in office,—every proposal hitherto submitted and advocated having ended in bringing forth an abor- tion incapable of being adopted, owing to the many conflicting and discordant opinions maintained and cherished by the different branches of the medical profession, each with distinct and rival claims and pri- vileges, under a multitude of variously-named corporate bodies, who are all too anxious to retain every legal right they now possess, and even solicitous for more; but too fearful lest, by any change in the confused state of medical law and government that now prevails, amendments accommodated to all the wants of the