The Medical Practitioners Bill : a brief analysis of its oppressive and unconstitutional clauses, addressed to the Earl of Derby / by Charles T. Pearce.

  • Pearce, Charles Thomas.
Date:
1858
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    prescribiug the legal preparations, with their weights and measures, to be employed in this country—preparations which yonr petitioner has not employed for many years in medical practice, nor can he consent to do so. That by clause xxxii. of said Bill, it is provided that medical practitioners, not being registered, are to be incapable of holding appointments as medical officer to any Hospital, Dispensary, or Friendly Society. Tour petitioner holding several such appoint- ments, he deems it a hardship to be deprived of such, and an unconstitutional interference with the liberty of the subject in the selection of a medical attendant. That your petitioner suggests that it is highly dangerous to empower a Medical Council to determine %olw among Her INIajesty's mb]ect^> shall practise medicine mid xoho shall not practise; such Council being composed of delegates of existing corporations, known for their obstinate resistance to new methods of cure, and their persecution and rejection of homoeopathic practitioners, of whom your petitioner is one. That your petitioner suggests that the object sought professedly by the bill, namely, registration, is amply provided for in the Medical Directories now published annually; and ttat legislation on medical matters has not been sought by the people of England. Tour petitioner humbly prays your Lordships' House that the said Bill may not pass into a Law. And your petitioner will ever pray. . (Signed,) CHAELES THOMAS PEAECE. J. TAXliOK & SON, PEIKTEES, NOBTHAMPTON.