A letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., M.P. ... : on medical registration and the present condition of the medical corporations / [Emeritus].

  • Emeritus, pseud.
Date:
1852
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    must sheath his weapon, anti dare not make a charge for the smallest quantity of medicine, if he has any fear of the penalties that may be extorted under the provisions of the Apothecaries Act of 1815, which likewise inflicts the same injustice upon their medical brethren from the Sister Kingdom * The rivalries and forays between the divisions of this now happily United Kingdom have wisely and luckily, lor the peace of Society, long ceased in every respect, but among the professors of the healing art; and the day must soon dawn when that will also terminate. The symptoms of the case may be classified under the following beads:— 1st Cap. The qualified class, connected with corporate bodies, possessing the power to confer medical degrees and licenses to practice ; these are so many, that few even of the profession aro well versed in all their varied curricula of study, requirements, titles, and privileges, while the great mass of the deeply-interested public are profoundly ignorant on the subject, and of the titles and rights that are granted and conveyed by their several Charters of Incorporation. In England, the Medical Corporations to which they belong are,— * The Apothecaries’ Act of 1815, also deprives the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy, entering subsequent to its passing, of the right to practise, when unemployed in the public service, which privilege was granted to them by the Act of Queen Anne, and which they had enjoyed, free from all dispute, up to the reign of George III., its injustice has been mitigated as far as possible by the Apothecaries’ Company, having resolved never to prosecute these parties, who are, however, placed by the alteration of the law, in this unfortunate position, that they cannot enforce payment from the public for their services, and may be prosecuted with suc- cess by any one of them. As Queen Anne bestowed originally this right, an opportunity is now open to our most gracious and excel- lent Queen Victoria, of carrying out her intentions, by restoring the boon which had been so considerately conceded by her distin- guished predecessor, and which was through inadvertence, taken away in 1815.
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