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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Medical Practitioners Bill : a brief analysis of its oppressive and unconstitutional clauses, addressed to the Earl of Derby / by Charles T. Pearce. 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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![This great country, as your Lordship is aware, abounds in friendly societies, founded and maintained by working men for their mutual preservation from want—^to assist each other in times of sickness, infirmity, and old age. These societies elect their medical attendant; they exercise their privilege in favour of the man of whose skill they have had opportunity of judging; they, in very many instances, have elected liomceopathic practitioners, and the writer holds three such appointments. The following clause aims at depriving those thousands of theii* present medical attendant, and enforces upon them a registered bigot, who will physic them after the fashion ordered by a medical council. The same clause aims also at depriving the writer and many others of their appointment, as physician or surgeon to any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, or lying-in hospital. I hold one of such ap]Dointments; and, if I am not registered, the poor for whom I have for many years laboured, must be deprived of my medical aid. The Clause xxxii. runs thus : JSTo person shall hold any appointment as a physician, surgeon, or other medical officer, either in the military or naval service, or in emigrant or other vessels, or in any hospital, infirmary, dispensary, or lying-in hospital, not supported vs'holly by voluntary contributions, or in any lunatic asylum, jail, penitentiary, bouse of correction, bouse of industry, parochial or other workhouse, or poorbouse, parish union, or other public establishment, body, or institution, or to any friendly or other society for affording mutual relief in sickness, infirmity, or old age, or as a medical officer of health, unless he he registered under this acty](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22270280_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
