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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![Majesty’s Government will adopt these principles, and promote the completion of them in due form, as an act ot the legislature. Thomas Smith, Crawley. Edward Boulger, Bletchingley. William Henry Sargant, Bletchingley. John Steele, Reigate. George Hampton, Reigate. Peter Martin, Reigate. Joseph Sargant, Reigate. Thomas Martin, Reigate. BRIGHTON. [Copy.] To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Baronet, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, Showeth, That your Memorialists, being legally qualified Members of the Medical Profession, have read with approbation a paper entitled “ Principles for a General Measure of Medical Reform,” which have been agreed upon by the joint committee of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England, the Society ot Apothecaries, and the National Institute of Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery ; and which your Memorialists believe have been submitted to the head of the Home Department. The undersigned are of opinion that a legislative measure founded on those principles will conduce to the welfare of the public, and will be generally satisfactory to the Medical Profession. Your Memorialists, therefore, pray that, as an act of Legislatuie, her Majesty’s Government will adopt those Principles of Medical Reform. George Drummond, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., Brighton ; Thomas Allen, M.D., Brighton; John Dill, M.R.C.S., Brighton; Thomas Blair, M.D., Brighton; George Hall, M.D. O.Yon, Brighton; Andrew Plummer, M.D., Brighton; John Lawrence, F.R.C.S.E., Brighton; James Amott, M.D., Brighton ; Edward Dix, M.R.C.S.E., Brigh- ton ; James Turner, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., Brighton ; James W. Wilson, M.D., Brighton; George Royde, M.R.C.S.E., L.S.A., Brighton; Augustus Franz, M.D., M.R.C.S., Brighton ; J. Cordy Burrows, M.R.C.S.L., L.S.A., Brighton ; William Kibbell, M.D. Brighton ; J. R. Simonds, M.R.C.S.E.; Edmund J. Furner, surgeon ; Richard Newnham, surgeon ; Robert Tayler, F.R.C.S., L.S.A.; A\ illiam](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307817_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)