Volume 4

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

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

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    Guthrie. George James. (Analysis of his Evidence)—continued. 4902, p. 28, 29-Disadvantages of general practitioners being remunerated by charging for their medicines ; proposed method of remuneration, 4902, p. 29, 30- General practitioners ceasing to practise pharmacy or midwifery become eligible to the council, 4902, p. 30-Amount of fee paid for disfranchisement from the College of Surgeons, and cause of the fee being taken, 4902, p. 30, 4906-Regulations now in force with regard to hospitals in London ; their size and distribution; proposed arrange¬ ments for improvement, and also with regard to compelling the attendance of students thereat, 4907-Examination relative to schools of anatomy in London ; evils pointed out; distinction between a teacher of anatomy and a demonstrator; improvements suggested, 4908-Reason teachers are not allowed to lecture on more than two branches of medical science, and advantage that would result from one only being allowed, 4909. [Third Examination.]—Opinion in favour of the Anatomy Act, and of the regulation of the Secretary of State ; suggestions as to equalising the distribution of bodies; necessity of registering the number of students attending anatomical shools, 4910-4917-A regis¬ tration of pupils might take place by the college, aided by the Secretary of State, 4918 -Advantage of the distribution of bodies directed by the Secretary of State, 4918- 4920-Mode of proceeding of the court of examiners at the examination of candidates, and emoluments a member of the court derives from his office, 4920^-4932- Particulars relative to the gift by Government of the Hunterian Museum to the College of Surgeons in trust for the public; difficulties in the way of the formation of the catalogue; destruction of certain manuscripts of Mr. Hunter; great value of the museum, 4933-4942-Formation of the college library ; extent and value thereof, 4942- Good feeling between the College of Surgeons and the Apothecaries' Company; advantage if both were regulated by Act of Parliament, 4943. Resolutions come to by the College of Physicians, College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries in London, relative to the Bill introduced into Parliament last year, for amending the Apothecaries’Act, 4944-Memoranda submitted to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Apothecaries’ Bill, by an old apothecary, 4944,p. 48- 50-Physicians and surgeons of the great hospitals of England, particularly Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, &c., consider themselves aggrieved by the pretensions set up by the Scotch universities, 4944-Cause of about 100 Irish gentlemen annually receiving their diploma from the London College of Surgeons, 4945, 4946-Further objection to the election of the council being given to members generally, 4947-Examination of candidates for the army and navy by the medical heads of those services is no proof of the diploma of the College of Surgeons being lightly esteemed, 4947, 4947#-Winter -courses of anatomy are better than the summer courses ; reason for the summer courses not being recognised by the College of Surgeons, 4948-4953-Majority of the council are in favour of six years’ preparation, and allowing four years of the time to be spent in a druggist’s shop, 4954-Why candidates cannot dispute with the college their exceeding their authority in insisting on a particular course of study, 4955-4958- Objection to that part of the Apothecaries’ Act which requires service of apprenticeship to a regular apothecary, two years being sufficient for a competent knowledge of phar¬ macy, 4959. Why students learn more in a druggist’s than in an apothecary’s shop, 4960- Extent of education required by the court of examiners previous to 1813, for passing a student, 4961-Detailed questions upon the study of anatomy, 4962, 4963-To what extent the College of Surgeons examine in medicine; why they do not examine to the full extent in that branch ; parties should not be allowed to go abroad without having passed the Society of Apothecaries, 4964-4984-List of the present council of the college ; number that are teachers at any of the larger medical schools, or are hospital surgeons in London ; number that have been general practitioners or army surgeons, 4985-4988'-Necessity for the examiners being properly remunerated, 49S9-4992 ■-At the College of Surgeons the document and the names attached to it are looked at and not the degree, as at the universities and the College of Physicians, 4993- Opinion, with reasons against uniting junior members of the college with seniors in the office of examiners, 4994-5001-Cost of maintenance of the museum, 5002-- Income of the college, 5003-Junior members of the profession could be found to fill the office of examiner at a less expense, but scientific surgery should not be put up to auction, 5004-5008-Opinion that it would be a gross fraud on the public for the president and senior members of the council to affix their names to a diploma, upon the certificate of the examiners, that the candidate had passed a good examination, without the president and senior members having attended the examination, 5009-5114-Pro¬ portion of candidates rejected to those approved, 5015. [Fourth Examination.]—Method adopted in the Uuiversitv of Paris, in the examination ot candidates lor a degree in physic or surgery; opinion against the French mode of proceeding as applicable to this country, 5205-5206-The examinations at the College of Surgeons might take place by five examiners instead of ten, but would not be so satisfactory to the public; saving money is of little consequence where the public health is concerned, 5207-5211-Experiment of examining candidates in public might take place if the Secretary of State had the power of annulling the regulation if it did not work well, 5212-5215-Why the nature of the questions that will be asked, being known from having the same examiners, is not productive of inconvenience, 5216-But one special
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