The healing art in its historic and prophetic aspects : the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, Oct. 19, 1885 / by Richard Quain.
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- 1885
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![46 fm-ther tlmt, so far from having acquired her ilhiess from her son, she herself had been in all probability the means of transmitting it to her childi-en. I have seen this patient very recently in consultation with Dr. Macintosh of the Brompton Road, who for some months has attended her. Note 12, page 32. The history of this subject is so little known, and yet is of such remarkable interest, that I have thought it well here to introduce as a note an extract fi'om the Annals of the College, showing how the class of Licentiates came to be re-established. First, however, I may refer to an extract from Caius'original MS. of the History of the College (vol. i. p.2), which in reference to the class then called Licentiates reads thus-:— 'Eodem etiam parliamento concessum est, ut ex hoc collegio medici non solum partem medicine, pharmaceuticam et dieteticam, sed etiam chirurgicam, si velint exerceant.' We further find that in 1524 a fresh statute was enacted, forbidding Licentiates to make or sell medicine (see Meryon's History of Medi- cine, vol. i. p. 271); and such a restriction continued to exist until the present class of Licentiates was established. The following extract describes the proceedings of the College. The Committee, engaged in 1859 (after the passing of the Medical Act, 1858) on the translation of the Bye-Laws of the College into EngHsh, and on adding to and altering the same, proposed the follow- ing as a new Bye-Law :—' Licentiates of this College shall not compomid or dispense medicines except for patients under their own care.' 1859. July 15. It was proposed by Dr. Barker, seconded, and agreed to, that the consideration of the Bye-Laws relating to Licentiates be postponed till October. July 2G. The Requisition calling for a special meeting to consider the proposed Bye-Laws in reference to the new order of Licentiates, was handed to the President [Dr. Mayo], signed by Drs. Latham, Barlow, Quain, Roe, Brown, Bennett, Gull, Baly. July 29. Dr. Copland gave notice of his intention to move a resolu- tion on the subject. August 8. At an extraordinary meeting of the College, stmimoned at the request of eight Fellows, to ' consider the proposed Bye-Laws in reference to the new order of Licentiates,'— Dr. Copland moved as an amendment, and Dr. Tweedie seconded: ' That it is inexpedient to establish under the Corporation seal a new order of Practitioners, entitled Licentiates, entering at an early age, and who are to be empowered to practise pharmacy; such an important organic change being so contrary to the long existing Laws of the College, and so hkcly to prove prejudicial to the position of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21908199_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
