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
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    That the Council should be empowered to strike from the register the names of any persons who shall be proved to have obtained the registry of their names by any fraud, or false certificate; or who shall have been convicted of felony; or of having wilfully and knowingly given any false certificate in any case in which the certificate of a medical prac- titioner is required bylaw; also, the names of any persons who shall have been expelled from either of the colleges, according to the terms of their respective Charters, provided such expulsion shall have been approved and allowed by the Council, as before required respecting bye-laws. [Agreed to.—R. C. S., I.J VII. That no one who is not registered should be judged capable of performing any act which is required by law to be done by a medical practitioner ; nor should any but a registered person be appointed to any office which is deemed by the Council to be a public medical or surgical office; nor should any but registered general practitioners be entitled to demand or recover fees for medical and surgical advice and attendance, or for medicines prescribed or administered. VIII. That penalties should be imposed by summary process on all unregistered persons practising medicine or surgery. Also, on all unregistered persons falsely pretending to be registered. Also, on all persons assuming any professional name or designation to which they are not by law entitled, or which implies that they belong to a class in the register in which they are not registered, or that they are members of a college in which they are not enrolled. [In reference to these four clauses, Council thinks that it should be distinctly provided that the offices of physician and surgeon in public institutions should only be held by persons registered in those classes respectively to which the office belongs; and that none but fellows of colleges, duly registered, should be permitted to act as public medical teachers. R. C. S., I.] In thus laying down the principles on which a Bill should be framed for regulating the whole medical profession, the Committee has entered into particulars only as regards the profession in England ; but under the fifth head, respecting reciprocity of practice in the three kingdoms, it has assigned the conditions which are clearly indispensable for the attain- ment of that desirable object. The Committee is aware that some variations from the plan which is here drawn out for England may be rendered advisable or necessary, by local circumstances and the rights of existing institutions, in Scotland and Ireland. And the Committee is contented that such variations should be made, provided the prin- ciple be not contravened, that equality of education and qualifications in each class respectively of the profession in the three kingdoms, should be first obtained, in order that the right of reciprocal practice may be justly allowed. (signed) J. A. Paris, President of the College of Physicians. Ben). Travers, President of the College of Surgeons of England. Edw. Bean, Master of the Society of Apothecaries. B. P. Pennington, President of the National Institute. London, February 1848. By order of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dublin, 29 March 1848. H. Maunsell, Secretary. Appendix, No. 12. PAPER delivered in by John Haviland, Esq. m.d., and referred to in his Evidence of 6 June 1848.—Questions 39G6, 3967. PROCEEDINGS IN PHYSIC. M. B. A Student, before he can become a Bachelor of Physic must have entered on his sixth year, computed from the date of his first admission at the University (Stat. Rea\) have resided nine terms (Decree of Heads, 1684), and have passed the previous examination (Grace of the Senate, March 1822.) A Bachelor of Arts may become a Bachelor of Physic after having entered on his sixth year, computed from the date of his first admission at the University, provided that one vear 7°2- 3 D at