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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![[ 4-87 ] *■ tas live collegium perpetuum;' but if this gave Dr. Stanger the right, the college could not refift his claim, though he would not fubmit to an examination. If every homo ejufdem facultatis, within London or feven miles round, becomes incorporated by it, it feems to me that Dr. Ar- cher went the right way to work when he faid, admit me, for I am a homo facultatis, and the charter incorporated every one of that defcrip- tion. The charter does not fay, that all men of the faculty, who on examination fhall be found fit to become the governing part of this body fliall be admitted; but if it has faid any thing in their favour, it has given them the right as foon as they become men of the faculty f. Suppofmg 3L charter incorporated all the weavers of a town; a man * The charter Incorporated all of the faculty who had been examined and approved, under the prior aft, which implied that all who had been examined and approved, as duly quali- fied for the fellovvfliip, were to be admitted in future. Bijt the charter, by implication at leaft, admits that a clafs with inferior qualifications may be allowed to praftife without being mem- bers. The college during a long period autliorized partial and inferior praftitioners, apothecaries, and furgeons, to praftife merely, but lately have degraded the beft educated and befl: qualified phyficians to this inferior clafs. Dr. Archer was examined for a permiffion to praftife, and could not prove that he had pafTed that fpecies of examination which candi- dates for the fellowfliip undergo. He could not therefore fay, he was a homo facultatis, in that fenfe which gives a le;^al title to the fellowfliip without farther tefts.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21442630_0503.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
