Cases relating to the medical council : for the use of members of the General Medical Council only / (edited by Fredk, Willis Farrer.).
- Farrer, Frederick Willis.
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cases relating to the medical council : for the use of members of the General Medical Council only / (edited by Fredk, Willis Farrer.). Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CASES FOR THE MEDICAL COUNCIL. 26 Law Second Division of the Court. ns5 704. (Before Martin, Bramwell and Pigott, BB.) (Reprinted by permis- Sor.r ANDREWS V. STYRAP. False of^tiUe of^ A., a druggist, liad attended a ]Datient in the capacity of a M^D- medical man, and sent in to Mm a bill for sucii attendances chase of a headed Mr. P. to Thomas Andrews, M D., setting out a variety ^ploDia charges for attendance and medicine, &c. He subsequently no bar to a wrote aletter signed Thomas Andrews, M.D., threatening legal nndTr*^*^^ proceedings unless the bill were paid, and he gave a receipt for sect. 40. ]3i]2 when paid, signing it in the same way. There was a coloured lamp over his shop door, on three sides of which the words and letters Thomas Andrews, M.D. were painted. It appeared that he had obtained, by the payment of a sum of money, a diploma of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Philadelj)hia, in the United States, but that he had never been in America, or studied or passed any examination for such de- gree, and he was not registered under the Medical Act. On appeal from a conviction by justices, under sect. 40 of the Medical Act, for having unlawfully, wilfully, and falsely taken and used the name, title, description, and addition of M.D., and thereby implying that he was then registered under the Medical Act, whereas he was not so registered, &c., it was held by the Court of Exchequer (Martin, Bramwell and Pigott, BB.) that the conviction was right, and must be affii-med. This was an appeal from a decision of justices, convicting the defendant, upon an information laid before them, under sect. 40 of the Medical Act, for falsely, &c., taking and using the name and title of a physician and doctor of medicine, and it came before the Court on a case stated by the justices, under 20 & 21 Vict. 0. 43. It appeared from the case that at a petty sessions in and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21508124_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
