The dental proceedings of the General Medical Council, July 1882 : an address ... at the Annual General Meeting of the British Dental Association ... August, 1882 on the proceedings of the past years (1878-82) in regard to the registration of dentists ... / by J. Tomes.
- John Tomes
- Date:
- [1882]
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Credit: The dental proceedings of the General Medical Council, July 1882 : an address ... at the Annual General Meeting of the British Dental Association ... August, 1882 on the proceedings of the past years (1878-82) in regard to the registration of dentists ... / by J. Tomes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tion for the purpose of treating his teeth, I have seen so much misfortune fall upon patients who have gone to those purely me- chanical dentists-I have seen cases where so much injury has been inflicted on patients from ignorance of medicine and sur^^ery that I would wish to encourage as much as possible dentists in obtaining an additional quaUfication, which they would be encou- raged to do by the knowledge of the fact that that additional qualification would be registered here, and from which they would be discouraged if they were able to say to themselves, ''What good is this or that qualification that I have studied to get, arid speiit so much money in getting, when it will not appear afterwards on the Register ? It has been said, Oh yes, it will appear on the Medi- cal Register:' Yes, true; but if a man wants to consult a dentist he does not go to the Post Office Directory, nor does he go to the Medical Register to look for a quahfied man—he goes to the Dentists' Register, and when he sees a man with such qualifica- tions as many of our dentists have—Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons (Ireland), not mere Licentiates—when he sees some of them with M.D. after their names, he knows that he has found an educated man, and the probability is that, in virtue of the education, he is a more responsible and respectable man, and one in whom the puWic would be entitled to place more con- fidence. I am very much pleased at the motion which has been brought forward by Sir Wm. Gull, and all I trust is that he will not on any account—no matter from what quarter the suggestion comes—allow it to be emasculated. Dr. Lyons : I wish to say one word in regard to the amend- ment proposed by Prof. Turner, which has the effect of limiting the class of colleges whose qualifications it would be possible to put on the Dentists' Register. It appears to me that sub-section 6 of section ii, is in a sense mandatory. It is one of those cases in which must be read to mean -must:' ''The General Council may, if they think fit, from time to tifnc make orders, &c., &c. [Reads the clause.] Now, in that case, the term medical authorities may seems to have been used in a general sense; but you will not find on looking at the Act that the term medical authorities h strictly defined. And if you turn to the very first page of the Act you will find it clearly laid down in clause 2 that the term medical autliorities means Bodies and Universities who choose the members for the Medical Council. That seems to define as clearly and accurately as is possible what the medical authorities](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21458704_0066.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
