Report of the Council of the National Institute of General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, on the present state of the medical reform question : containing the 'Principles' of medical reform promulgated by the conference of delegates at the Royal College of Physicians, London ; the draft of the proposed charter to the general practitioners in medicine, surgery, & midwifery ; the 'outlines of a Bill' furnished to the Parliamentary Committee by the conference, with the concurrence of the universities and medical corporations of Scotland and Ireland ; and other public documents : with remarks on the objections which have been recently urged against the proposed measures : August 9th, 1848.
- National Institute of General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery.
- Date:
- 1848
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Credit: Report of the Council of the National Institute of General Practitioners in Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, on the present state of the medical reform question : containing the 'Principles' of medical reform promulgated by the conference of delegates at the Royal College of Physicians, London ; the draft of the proposed charter to the general practitioners in medicine, surgery, & midwifery ; the 'outlines of a Bill' furnished to the Parliamentary Committee by the conference, with the concurrence of the universities and medical corporations of Scotland and Ireland ; and other public documents : with remarks on the objections which have been recently urged against the proposed measures : August 9th, 1848. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![represent the opinions of above 4,000 of the general practitioners of England and Wales. That upon a former occasion the previous Council of the National Institute had the honour of presenting a memorial, bearing date De- cember 24th, 1846, to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which memorial the opinions and senti- ments of the class of medical practitioners whom your memorialists represent, were carefully and deliberately stated. That the state- ments contained in that memorial were subsequently explained and confirmed by a deputation from the said Council of the Institute, in an interview with the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, at the Home Office, on Friday, 6th February, 1847; and your me- morialists fully belive that at that interview the deputation] were enabled so far to convince the Right Honourable the Secretary of State of their truth and importance, as to elicit the assurance that the Council should be admitted concurrent parties to any measure of medical reform that may be adopted by the Government. That your memorialists fully concur in the propriety of the recom- mendation conveyed to them and to others of their medical brethren, from the same influential quarter, to the effect that it would be desirable that the members of the medical profession should themselves meet and agree upon some general plan, prior to the Government untertaking to introduce a Bill before Parliament for the revision of the laws affecting the medical profession. That your memorialists have ever been most anxious to promote the views contained in that recommendation, and have been willing and prepared to meet any authorized parties representing the existing medical institutions, and to discuss any plan which might be submitted, in the most amicable spirit, and with the most sincere desire to obtain such a settlement of this highly important question as may conduce to the public welfare, and the peace and tranquillity of the profession. That your memorialists deeply regret that the advice alluded to has not been acted upon, and that the benevolent intentions of the Government have not been reciprocated in those quarters from whence an immediate proposition for a conference should have emanated. That your memorialists are fully persuaded that daily increasing evils press upon the people of these realms, in consequence of the laws by which the medical institutions of the country are govei ned having been found by experience to be quite inadequate to the wants of the public, and from their charters having become in a great degree obsolete. That before any efficient measure affecting the public health or sanitary improvement can be successfully carried into effect, medical reform appears to be an essentially preliminary step, and your memorialists can never too strongly impress on the Govern-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307817_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
