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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![STEEL V. ORMSBY. Nov. 1894. STEEL was charged under the Medical Act, 1858, s. 40, with False having wilfuUy and falsely taken the title of M.D., thereby yo^^f implying that he was registered under the Medical Act of 1858. title M.D. The defendant had signed certificates of death and other medical £d on the certificates, adding the letters M.D. and B.C., although his factsjobe , . . ' o an offence name does not appear m any Eegister showing that he is regis- under tered under the Medical Acts, and he did not hold any diploma Act of^ entitling him to be so registered. It was proved on his behalf, 1858. however, that he held a certificate, which had been given to him Law^e- by a joint-stock company, awarding him the degree of M.D. (B.C.). P^^g^ It was also proved that the defendant had on his door-plate the [Reprinted words Joseph Steel, M.D., B.C., Botanic Physician, that is, SnofThe M.D. of the Botanic College—and that he had stated that Editor.] he was not registered. His solicitor cited Ellis v. Kelly (30 L. J. (M. C.) 35), and contended that there was no evidence that he had infringed the Act; but the magistrates, having their atten- tion directed to The Queen v. Baker (56 J. P. 407), found, as a fact, that the defendant had wilfully and falsely taken the title of Doctor of Medicine, thereby implying that he was registered under the Act, and they accordingly convicted him, but stated a case on which he appealed. The Court upheld the conviction. Mr. Justice Wbight said he was unable to see any ground for any doubt or difficulty whatever. The section no doubt required a statement to be made by the defendant false in fact, and known by him to be so. The magistrates had found as a fact that the defendant had wilfully and falsely described himself as M.D., or a doctor of medicine. The evidence was, that the defendant, a collier, had got a certificate fi-om a bogus institution which pre- tended to give diplomas, thereby defi-auding thepubhc, and thus had set up in business as a doctor, giving certificates such as](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21508124_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
