The Laws Relating to the Medical Profession; With an Account of the Rise and Progress of Its Various Orders - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... that persons who have taken degrees in our universities are entitled to certain privileges in the church: so, if we look into our own profession, those who have been educated at our universities have particular privileges; and though the inns of court are not corporations, yet their regulations show that this has been-considered as reasonable. It is not that a person becomes qualified from keeping his commons within the walls of the inns of court or the universities, but living with those of the profession will probably advance him in the knowledge of that profession for which he is a candidate. Again, in the civil law, however competent any particular individual may be from extraordinary endowments, or the exertion of superior talents, he must first take his degrees at one of our universities, and afterwards continue a year in a state of probation before he can practise. Those regulations that are adapted to the common race of men are the best: it does not follow that all institutions calculated for the ordinary classes of men are to be prostrated, merely because they stand in the way of some few individuals of superior talents. Then the question is, Whether this is a reasonable bye-law, that requires a degree to be taken at one of our universities, which, in general, is supposed to be conferred as a reward for talent and learning. If, indeed, this had been a sine qua non, and it had operated as a total exclusion of every other mode of gaining access to the college, it would have been a bad bye-law; but these bye-laws point out other modes of gaining admission into the college. If Dr. Stanger has all those requisites that qualify a person for that high station, any one of the fellows may now propose him; he may apply to the honourable...

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