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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    NOTE S, ETC. ]. Contents of the Act. Section l.f Ac.—By reference to the analysis given ante p. 11. it will be found that the subject matters of the Act arrange them- selves under some twelve different heads, which may be thus enu- merated :— I. Preliminary Sections; II. The Formation of a General Council for Medical Education and Registration; III. Regulation of General and Branch Councils ; IV. Registration ; V. Superintendence of Medical Education ; VI. Privileges of Regis- tered and Disabilities of Unregistered Persons ; VII. Penalties ; VIII. Application of Monies; IX. Dispensing Power of General Council; X. New Charters ; XI. Pharmacopoeia; and XII. Re- servation of the Rights of certain Persons. In the following notes it is proposed onty to state the necessary steps which it will be incumbent on medical practitioners to take after the 1st October, 1858, in order to become registered; and to notice some of the principal points in which the existing laws relating to the medical profession will be modified by the new statute. Many important branches of the law on this subject, such as the punishments for mal- practice in medicine, the privileges and protection of medical men, the laws relating to dissection, to the public health, to lunacy, to medical evidence, and the regulations affecting medical men em- ployed in the army, navy, and other branches of the public service, as being comparatively untouched by the Medical Act, have not here been entered upon. Note 1.—Answer to the Registrar's Letter. Section XIV.—A portion of this section deserves particular notice from its stringent provisions. After a person has become registered (for which see the next Section) the registrar may write a letter, addressed to him according to his address in the register; and if no answer be returned to the letter within six months from the sending of it, the person’s name may be struck off the register ; subject} however, to the same being restored by direction of the General Council. Thus a practitioner’s name is liable at any time to be ■struck off the register from the accident of the registrar’s letter not