An address by the Society of Apothecaries, to the general practitioners of England and Wales, on the provisions of the Bill 'for the better regulation of medical practice throughout the United Kingdom,' and their probable influence on the position and prospects of that branch of the medical profession.

Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London

Date:: 1844

Credit: An address by the Society of Apothecaries, to the general practitioners of England and Wales, on the provisions of the Bill 'for the better regulation of medical practice throughout the United Kingdom,' and their probable influence on the position and prospects of that branch of the medical profession. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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possible to believe, for if the avowed object had been to depreciate the standard of qualification of the general practitioner of medicine, to lower his profes- sional status, and to diminish his claim to public confidence, it would be difficult to have devised a measure better adapted to the purpose. From the Society’s connexion, as a public body, with the general practitioners of England and Wales, it is almost unnecessary to premise that in the obser- vations which they are about to offer, they propose to confine themselves to the influence which the Bill is calculated to exercise on that class of medical prac- titioners. For although in their investigation of the measure, they have not failed to direct their atten- tion to the whole of its provisions, in order that they might the better estimate its effect upon the interests of the general practitioner, they consider it beyond their province to express any opinion upon its pro- bable influence on the interests of other branches of the profession. The preamble of the Bill states, that “ it is for the good of all Her Majesty’s subjects that the knowledge of physic and surgery should be promoted, and that means should be afforded whereby those who have been examined and found skilful by competent au- thority, may be known from ignorant and unskilful pretenders to the same knowledgea proposition to which no exception can be taken. All are subject to the visitation of sickness, all therefore have an interest in the ])rornotion of that knowledge, by the

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