Volume 4

Report ... with minutes of evidence, and appendix ... 1834.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Medical Education.
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[1834]
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Credit: Report ... with minutes of evidence, and appendix ... 1834. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Green Joseph Henry. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. regulations general practitioners would be desirous of entering the higher grade, 6569 -Further evidence as to the constitution of a general council, 6572-6580- Necessity for the medical students pursuing their studies at a metropolitan collegiate institution, 6581-6589. Gregory, Dr. Great advantage of his clinical lectures at Edinburgh, Cooper 5403. Grinders. Manner in which examiners detect whether a man has been under the charge of a grinder, Cooper 5641. Gunning, Mr. Approval of his proposition in 1790 as to remuneration of examiners, Guthrie 4991, 4992. Guthrie, George James. (Analysis of his Evidence.)—President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London ; other ranks and degrees held by witness in his profession, 4703 -Nature of the examination lor admission into the army as surgeon, formerly and at present, 4713-4717-Portion of the council of the college that are examiners, 4721, 4722-Present method of electing members of the council, 4724-4730-Objections to the proposed plan of allowing the 200 gentlemen who practise surgery only to have the power of electing the council, 4731-4744-Objections to electing the council from the 100 senior members of the corporation, or to have a limited number of electors, 4745-4749-Meetings of the council being open would be a greater compensation to the body at large than giving them the right of election, 4750--Advantages of the bye-law which excludes from the council persons practising pharmacy, 4751. Persons engaged in trade, or in any profession foreign to surgery, or becoming bankrupts or insolvents, or liable to those laws, are ineligible to the council; and if elected are liable to be removed, 4751-4760-Traders, if known, would have a hint to confine their practice to their profession, 4761-Persons in the council practising pharmacy or mid¬ wifery for money would be removed, but not in the event of an act of charity, 4762- The barbers retained the minute-books of thecorporation upon the separation of theUnited Company of Surgeons and Barbers, 4767--The grounds of ineligibility for the council of gentlemen practising pharmacy is from their whole time being devoted to that practice, and the consequent impossibility of their becoming good surgeons, 4770-4783. 4798- 4800-Members of the army and navy, or India surgeons,if elected on the council, must reside in London, 4785-4789-Proportion of the whole college that are resident in London, and number of those who practise surgery only, 4790-4793-The asking permission by members of the college to practise pharmacy has fallen into disuse, 4794- 4796-The greater part of the members of the college who practise pharmacy are, as regards their moral character, fit to become members of the council, 4798-4800. Detailed reasons for the exclusion of gentlemen practising midwifery from the council, 4801-4812-Reason why the lowest quantum of education only is required to obtain the diploma of the college, 4813-Examiners are the senior member of the council; how far advisable to place a limit on gentlemen remaining examiners after a certain age, 4814-4820-Detail of the method of electing members of the council on a death or resignation taking place, 4821-4827'-Opinion against a ballot for members, 4828- Number of the council should be augmented, and their meetings thrown open, except in cases of an election ballot, 4829-Course of study of candidates for the diploma between 1800 and 1819, 4830-4833-Cause of the alteration transferring the power of making regulations for the examinations of candidates from the examiners to a quorum of the council, 4834-4836-Greater extent in the examination of students since 1819 ; qualifications that are required of them ; comparison between the London and Edinburgh college certificate required of professional study, 4837-4858-Fraudulent personation by parties obtaining diplomas are not frequent; cases discovered will be prosecuted, 4858-4860-Want of authority causes the college not to enforce preliminary education for students not articled to the college, 4861-4868-Description of lectures and demonstrations necessary to be gone through by students, and period within which the enumerated conditions are usually or can be complied with, 4869-4882. [Second Examination.]—Date and particulars of the bye-law excluding practitioners in midwifery from the council of the College of Surgeons, 4883-4885-Number of lectures given on the different branches; the numbers not limited, except to a minimum ; the arrangement is left to the lecturers, 4886-4896-Manner in which young men gain admission into surgical practice in England, and evils attendant upon the system, 4^97’ 4898-Power should again be given to the College of Surgeons, to a certain extent, of calling persons who act as members of the profession before them, in case of their acting improperly, 4898.4900-Suggestions as to the examination druggists in Loud on and the country should go through, 4901-Evils of the present manner of taking apprentices, and suggestions for the improvement thereof, 4902-Ditierence that should be made w ith regard to the punishment in a court of law between an autho¬ rised and an unauthorised practitioner, 4902, p. 25, par. 2-Manner in which the regular practitioner should be protected against quack doctors and quack medicines, 4902, p. 26, par. 1. 2. Necessity for there being an examination in midwifery, and proposed manner in which it might be conducted, 4902, p. 27-29-Proposed manner of conducting exami¬ nations in the different branches; disadvantages of one general board of examination, 602.—II. 02 4902
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