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
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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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![[ 46^ ] If we look into our profeflion, and once lead ourfelves to fuppofe that the regulations made in the feveral houfes for the education of the law are unreafonable; to be fure that is not the prefent cafe, becaufe they are not corporations to which a mandamus will go, but I have a right to refer to them as well as to any corporations, to fee what is in the eflimation of mankind rea- fonablc; we know perfons are to continue fo many years. It has been faid, and it palTed cur- rent for a great while, that Lord Chancellor Jefferies was never admitted in any of the inns of court; Sir James Burrow with great induftry, found out where he was admitted; he was cer- tainly a man of great abilities, but with great and flagrant faults. It does not follow that eating mutton within the walls of the inns of court and attending commons there confer a knowledge upon the ftudents; but the queftion is, whether it is not reafonable to fuppofe, that the habits of life they follow there, and the converfations they hold upon legal topics, are probable means of advancing a perfon in the knowledge of that profeflion, long enjoyed great political influence. Maxims of policy exift which have generally led the government to (eieft the digni- taries of the church from perfons who have imbibed their te- nets in the Englifli univerfities, and induced the legiflature to grant them the privilege of plurality of livings. Thefe cir- cumftances do not apply to the faculty of phyfic, which weakens the analogy contended for.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21442630_0478.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)