Homoeopathy : report of the speeches on irregular practice delivered at the Nineteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton, August 13 & 14, 1851.

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1851
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Credit: Homoeopathy : report of the speeches on irregular practice delivered at the Nineteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, held at Brighton, August 13 & 14, 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Medicine and Surgery as followed by members of this Association, and by the profession at large. 3. That for these reasons it is derogatory to the honour of members of this Association to hold any Hnd of professional intercourse with Homoeo- pathic practitioners. 4. That there are three classes of practitioners who ought not to be members of this Association, viz.—1st, real Homoeopathic Practitioners; 2nd, those who practise Homoeopathy in combination with other systems of treatment ; and 3rd, those who under various pretences meet m consultation, or hold professional intercourse with those who practise Homoeopathy. 5. That a Committee of seven be appointed to frame laws in accordance with these Resolutions, to be submitted to the next annual meeting of the Association. i, v 6. That the thanks of the Association are eminently due, and are hereby given, to the Presidents and Fellows of the Royal Colleges of Physicians- and Surgeons of Edinburgh for their determined stand against Homoeopathic delusions and impostures. 7. That the thanks of the Association are also due, and are hereby given, to the Universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrew's for their resolu- tion to refuse their diplomas to practitioners of Homoeopathy ; but the Association feels imperatively called on to express its disapproval of any School of Medicine which retains among its teachers any one who holds Homoeopathic opinions. 8. That these Resolutions be printed, and transmitted to aU the Medical Licensing Bodies and Medical Schools in the United Kmgdom ; and that they likewise be inserted in the Tiynes newspaper, the Morning Post, the North British Advertiser, Saunders's News Letter, aU the British and Irish Medical Periodicals, and in such other Journals as the Council may sanction upon the recommendation of the Branch Associations. In proposing these Eesolutions for tlie adoption of the Asso- ciation, your Committee are anxious to state that they aj-e actuated by a strong sense of the importance of the subject in its relation both to humanity and morals. They most conscientiously believe that the countenance aiForded to the form of charlatamy herein alluded to is detrimental to the true interests of the pubhc, as it is subversive of that strict integrity which ought to characterise practitioners of Medicine, and which has ever distinguished the profession in these Kingdoms. JOHN ROSE CORMACK, M.D. Edin., Fel. Royal Col. Phys. Edin. (of Putney). JAMES TUNSTALL, M.D. Edin. (of Bath). W. H. RANKING, M.D. Cantab, (of Norwich). [The reading of the Report was followed hy prolonged opplausc]
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