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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    jBrande, Professor. Superintending chemical operator at the laboratory of the Apothe¬ caries’ Company, Field 823-Number of pupils attending lectures of, at Apothecaries’ Hall, from 1825 to 1834, on pharmaceutical chemistry and materia medica, App. p. 111--His lectures are open to members of the society and their apprentices, App. p. 111. Burroivs, George Mann, m.d. (Analysis of his Evidence.)—State of the medical pro¬ fession as regarded general practitioners before the Act of 1815, 239-242-Principal object of the apothecaries’ association was to reduce the number of persons who were practising having received no medical education whatever, 243, 244-Steps taken by the association to obtain a revision of the laws as regarded general practitioners, and nature of the opposition encountered by them, 245-263-Circumstances which caused witness to resign his situation as examiner at Apothecaries’ Hall, 264-268-Effec¬ tive manner in which the Act of 1815 has been conducted by them, 269-271-Court of assistants should have the power of dismissing any members of the board of examiners on stating the grounds thereof, 273-275-The choice of examiners should not be limited to licentiates of the society, but thrown open to the medical profession, 276-279. The society in their prosecutions of unqualified persons must act with great par¬ tiality, from their not having sufficient knowledge of all the circumstances of the cases, 281-301-Expense of prosecutions very great, 283-Prosecutions have not been effectual in putting down unqualified persons, 289-No means of putting down unquali¬ fied persons unless the society is furnished with the means of paying the expense of prosecutions, 290-295-Very desirable to limit prosecutions to the cases of unqualified practitioners falsely professing themselves to be in possession of a qualification, 296-304 --Candidates should be examined by the board of that body to which they intend to belong, 306-Great jealousy between the different branches of the profession, 306 -Power of regulating the education and examination of general practitioners being vested in the College of Physicians would be very injurious to their interests, 307, 308 —-Physicians look upon the general practitioner as an inferior branch of the pro¬ fession, 308, 309—•—Surgeons who have served either in the army or navy ought to be allowed to act as general practitioners, 310. Very requisite that the present practice of taking apprentices should continue, and duration of apprenticeship, 311-328--Apprenticeships have not the effect of over¬ stocking the market with practitioners, 322-Length of time necessary to be devoted to medica] education, 323-325-General practitioners should be allowed to charge for their attendance instead of medicine, 329-332-Very great advantages derived by the public from the passing the Act of 1815, 341-No teacher of medicine in any of the three branches should be an examiner, 342, 343--Great number of persons who have passed examinations at Edinburgh have been rejected by the Examiners of the Apothecaries’Society from their general inefficiency, 344-353-Very necessary that general praetitiouers should undergo an examination in midwifery, and by whom it should be conducted, 354-358-Midwifery appertains more to surgeons than apothe¬ caries, 355, 356. [Second Examination.]—Evidence respecting the opinion given by witness formerly as to the ineligibility of army or navy surgeons to practice as apothecaries unless under certain regulations, 360-365-Country apprentices are sometimes very much neglected, 366, 367^-Country practitioners are much better educated now than for¬ merly, 367-369——Constitution of the court of assistants is defective at the present time, 372. Bye-Laws. Rules and orders of the Society of Apothecaries, with respect to the making or alteration of any bye-law, App.p. 91-Also with respect to the publication {hereof, App. p. 99. C. Caffeine. Sometimes used in adulterating quinine, Hennell 903. Candidates. Great number of, who have passed examinations at Edinburgh, have been rejected by the Examiners of the Apothecaries’ Society from their general inefficiency, Burrows 344-353-Proportion of those rejected at Apothecaries’ Hall, has very much increased of late years, Bacot 387-389-Cause of the increased number of rejected candidates during the last five or six years by the Examiners of the Apothecaries’ Com¬ pany, llidout 538-542-Increased proportion of rejections of, by the Apothecaries’ Company, caused by the greater efficiency of their examiners of late years, Watson 678 -Are not required by the Apothecaries’ Company to have attended a course of prac¬ tical chemistry, Ridout 597-599-Return of the several anatomical schools and teachers attended by candidates examined for the certificate of the Court of Examiners of the Society of Apothecaries in 1831, 1832, and 1833 5 °f respective numbers who attended each of the said schools or teachers, and of the respective numbers approved and rejected upon examination, App. p. 134-136-Similar return of the several hospi¬ tals and dispensaries attended by the candidates, App.p. 137-141. See also Anatomical Schools. Examination of Candidates. Materia Medica. Phar¬ macy. Censors of College of Physicians. See Visitations. Certificates.
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