The new Medical Act : with explanatory notes for the guidance of the medical practitioner and student / by R.M. Glover and J.B. Davidson.

  • Robert Mortimer Glover
Date:
1858
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Credit: The new Medical Act : with explanatory notes for the guidance of the medical practitioner and student / by R.M. Glover and J.B. Davidson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ANNO YICESIMO PEIMO & YICESIMO SECUNDO VICTORIA REGINA. CAP. XC. An Act to regulate the Qualifications of Prac- titioners in Medicine and Surgery. [2nd August, 1858.] WHEREAS it is expedient that Persons requiring Medical Aid should be enabled to distinguish quali- fied from unqualified Practitioners: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows : I. This Act may for all Purposes be cited as “ The Medical Act.” II. This Act shall commence and take effect from the First Day of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. III. A Council, which shall be styled “ The Registration of the United Kingdom,” hereinafter re- ferred to as the General Council, shall be established, and Branch Councils for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively formed thereout as herein-after mentioned. IY. The General Council shall consist of One Person chosen from Time to Time by council.3 °f each of the following Bodies ; (that is to say,) The Royal College of Physicians : The Royal College of Surgeons of England: The Apothecaries Society of London : The University of Oxford: Short Title. Commence- ment of Act. Medical