A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner.

Date:
1834
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Credit: A letter addressed to Henry Warburton, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. &c., chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the State of the Education and Practice of the Medical Profession, &c. &c., on the grievances affecting the medical profession / by a Junior practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The subserviency of the surgeons is seen, by the fact of the Faculty of Glasgow, established by James VL being composed partly of physi- cians^ who should determine on the qualifications of surgeons ; but the latter class of practitioners have in course of time not only thrown off all de- pendence upon their former masters, but have become competitors for an equal share of public confidence. It thus appears that the origin of the surgeons was merely the result of expediency, and that in uniting the communities of physic and surgery, we only revert to the condition in which the pro- fession of physic at first existed. The practice of midwifery was at first exclu- sively confined to females ; but it has become a study of so much importance, as fully to war- rant its being classed among the duties of the medical practitioner: and as it is at present prac- tised by physicians, surgeons, and apothecaries, it ought to be included with them in the one body. and a baronet, one of the greatest ornaments and promoters of medical science, having practised as an accoucheur, was obliged to resort to the archbishop's degree of M.D., iu order to avoid the necessity of resuming- his studies at some univer- sity : and this, forsooth, because the fellows of the College of Physicians could not meet him in the capacity of a consulting practitioner, on a medical case !
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