Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment.
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Third report from the Select Committee on Medical Registration and Medical Law amendment : together with the minutes of evidence and appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![University of Edinburgh, 5 June 1848.—At the request of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Medical Registration, &c., the following Observations by me, as representing the University of Edinburgh, are this day transmitted to the Chairman of the Committee. The request was communicated to me by Mr. Wood, of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (signed) R. Chrislison. College of Physicians, Pall Mall, East, My Lord, 18 May 1848. I have the honour to transmit to your Lordship, for the information of “ The Select Committee of The House of Commons on Medical Registration and Medical Law Amendment,” of which your Lordship has acted as Chairman, an Outline of a General Bill for regulating the Profession of Physic and Surgery, which has been drawn by the joint committee of representatives of the different classes of the medical profession, which has held numerous conferences at the College of Physicians ; and I am directed to express the earnest desire of the joint committee that a Bill, of which an outline has thus been drawn, may be prepared and brought before Parliament with as little delay as possible, it being the sincere conviction of the joint committee that such a measure would promote the general good of the profession, and conduce, therefore, to the benefit of the public. I am further directed by the joint committee to state, that if they should be honoured with any communication from the Committee of the House of Commons, it would reach them without loss of time if addressed to them through me, as their honorary secretary. I have the honour to be, Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servant, The Lord Advocate, Francis Hawkins. See. &c. See. OUTLINE OF A BILL For Regulating the Profession of Physic and Surgery. With Remarks by Dr. Christison, on the part of the University of Edinburgh, 5 June 1848.] Preamble. That an Act passed in the third yearof the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, Repeal of “An Act for the Appointing of Physicians and Surgeons,” and also another Act passed in the fifth year of the same reign, intituled, “An Act concerning Surgeons to be dis- charged of Quests and other things;” and also two Acts passed in the thirty-second year of the same reign, respectively intituled, “ For Physicians and their Privilege, and for Barbers and Surgeons;” and also another Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of the same reign, intituled, “A Bill that Persons being no common Surgeons may minister Medicines notwithstanding the Statute;” and another Act passed in the first year of the reign of Queen Mary, inti- tuled, “ An Act touching the Corporation of Physicians in London and also an Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of King William the Third, intituled, “An Act for exempting Apothecaries from serving the Offices of Constable, Scavenger and other Parish and Ward Offices, and from serving on Juries,” and so much of every other Act as continues the last-recited Act; and so much of an Act passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, “An Act for making the Surgeons of London and the Barbers of London two separate and distinct Corporations,” as does not relate to the separation of the said corporations, or to the Master, Governors and Commonalty of the mystery of Barbers of London ; and also so much of an Act of the Parliament of Ireland passed in the fortieth 702. X X year](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24906803_0341.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
