Medical reform : a letter to the Right Hon. Viscount Melbourne with the outlines of a Bill for regulating the practice of surgeon-apothecaries and chemists and druggists ... and a plan for suppressing uneducated practitioners ... / by Martin Sinclair.

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[1840?]
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    Note.—Since the manuscript of the letter to your Lordship was placed in the hands of the Printer, I have received a Copy of the “ Report by the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, on the proposals of Messrs. Warburton and Hawes for the Amendment of the Laws relating to the Medical Profession in Great Britain and Ireland.” The report is a dignified and talented production in favour of Medi- cal Reform, and contains an able analysis of the several clauses of Mr.Warburton’s and Mr. Hawes’s Bills. In the leading points the Report and the Bill, now sub- mitted for your Lordship’s consideration, coincide ; but the author of the Report, in common with Mr. Warburton and the writer of the Article on Medical Reform m the Quarterly Review for December, 1840, deprecates any penal enactments for suppressing unqualified Practitioners, while Mr. Hawes and the Profession una- nimously approve of a summary mode of putting down unlicensed Practitioners, as a measure absolutely necessary for the protection of the public. As I humbly, and with all due deference to the author of the Report, conceive that the formation of a National Faculty of Medicine is an undertaking of great magnitude and in- vested with great difficulties, I shall not indulge in any further observations on that subject than to repeat that that question will afford ample materials for a second Bill being introduced to the consideration of the Legislature at a future period, I beg leave, therefore, to direct your Lordship’s attention to the Edin- burgh Report, and also to the following papers, as bearing on the plan of Medical Reform advocated in the following pages, viz:—a paper entituled “ Me- moranda submitted to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Apothecaries’ Bill, by G. J. Guthrie, Esq.—Pari, evidence on Medical Education, Part 2, page 48.—Evidence of Mr. Nussey, Master of the Society of Apothecaries. Op. Cit. part 3, page 53.—The leading articles in Dr. Ryan’s Medical Journal, for 13th and 20th July, 1833.—Report of the Naval and Military Commission.—Letter addressed to Mr. Warburton by a Druggist: Lumley, London.—The Regulations of the London University for obtaining the degrees of Doctor in Medicine, and Bachelor in Medicine.—A Letter in the Lancet, No. 833, page 751, entituled “ Hints on Medical Reform by a Magistrate.”—The leading article in the Provincial Medi- cal and Surgical Journal for December 12, 1840. December, 21 st, 1840. M_ g <£ntrrrti at Stationers' JJiall.