Decision by Court of Session, (Second Division), respecting charter of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

  • Scotland. Court of Session
Date:
1819
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    n study the principles of Surgery; but, as his skill in this department, is no part of his inaugural examinations, there is a propriety that he should be examined in Surgery, when he afterwards in- tends to devote himself to this part of the Heal- ing Art. But the strongest proof that a degree in Medi- cine does not confer a right to practise Surgery, is furnished by an Academic body, who are cer- tainly the best judges of the powers conveyed by their own diploma. In a Memorial presented by the University of Glasgow to the House of Com- mons about two years ago, the learned Senate distinctly avow, that Surgery is a separate depart- ment ; and that until they had a distinct establish- ment for Surgery, and a Professor appointed to give lectures and demonstrations on it exclusively, they did not think themselves warranted to grant brevia or diplomas for its practice. It was their rule not to give degrees in any department of knowledge, until they had a provision for the re- gular teaching of it. Upon this principle, the degrees in Medicine, which they have given for above a century, could not contain a license to practise Surgery, as a professorship in that depart- ment has been established only two or three years. c
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