Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen].

  • John Allen
Date:
1833
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Credit: Thoughts on medical reform / By a retired practitioner [i.e. John Allen]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    highest appellation in medicine. But it has been bestowed with so lavish a hand by the Scotch Universities that some change is unavoidable. Some new nomenclature must be invented. This being the case, why. should not all persons, who obtain the highest diploma in medicine, bear the same designation ? As they must all have studied the branches of education prescribed by law, and must all have undergone the same examination, and ought all to have the same rank and privi- lezes; why should they not be considered as Members of the same College or Faculty ? Let their appellation be Fellow of the Royal College of medicine, with the addition of London, Edin- burgh or Dublin, if they belong to the Royal Colleges established in any of these places, or with no addition at all, if they belong to none of them. For a Surgical diploma of the first class, the same preliminary and collateral education should be required as for the same rank in me- dicine ; nor should there be much difference in the professional education of Surgeons and Physi- cians. A well-informed Physician ought to un- derstand surgery in all its branches, and a well- educated surgeon should be able to practise physic. If any difference is made in their edu- eation it should be slight. A Physician might be compelled to attend two courses of lectures on the Practice of Physic and on clinical medi-
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