A justification of the right of every well educated physician of fair character and mature age, residing within the jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be admitted a fellow of that corporation, if found competent, upon examination, in learning and skill : together with an account of the proceedings of those licentiates who lately attempted to establish that right; including the pleadings of the counsel, and the opinions of the judges, as taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney / by Christopher Stanger, M. D. Gresham professor of physic, and physician to the Foundling Hospital.
- Christopher Stanger
- Date:
- 1798
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A justification of the right of every well educated physician of fair character and mature age, residing within the jurisdiction of the College of Physicians of London, to be admitted a fellow of that corporation, if found competent, upon examination, in learning and skill : together with an account of the proceedings of those licentiates who lately attempted to establish that right; including the pleadings of the counsel, and the opinions of the judges, as taken in short-hand by Mr. Gurney / by Christopher Stanger, M. D. Gresham professor of physic, and physician to the Foundling Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 4^r5 ] is not generally the fruits of learning, at leaft not the beft fruits of learning, to get into litigation, one cannot well tell how thefe learned gentle- men have fallen into fo much litigation *. I am not fure whether the fault refts with any of them, I very fincerely wifli, after having looked into the cafes which have from time to time been decided, that the learned judges, who did decide the cafes, had confined themfelves to the point that was before them, and had not dropped hints which perhaps invited, if they did not inftigate, litiga- tion f. It prefident out of their own body, to chufe cenfors, and to fiipply a!I the officers, and perform all the corporate funftions. The aft of parliament everywhere ufes the words commonalty, fel- lowfliip, and corporation, as fynonimous. The aft ratifies the letters patents granted to the corporation of the commonalty and feliowfliip; the elefts, the higheft officers after the prefident, are to be chofen out of the commojialty. It appears impoffible that a man can be of the commonalty without being legally entitled to all the privileges of a member. It is as eafy to tell why the great body of phyficians have en- deavoured to emancipate themfelves from dependence and in- feriority, and to recover privileges for which they are confcious of being equally qualified with the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, as it is difficult to account, on any fair or liberal principle, why the graduates of thefe univerfities fhould perfift to deprive them of thofe privileges. f It is difficult for upright minds not to revolt at injuftice, not to point out its iniquity, and the mode of redreffing it. Lord](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21442630_0471.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
