Amendment of the Medical Acts : a retrospect and balance sheet of the Medical Reform Union / by the late provisional executive.

  • Medical Reform Union.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Amendment of the Medical Acts : a retrospect and balance sheet of the Medical Reform Union / by the late provisional executive. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    in many papers* and yet only fifty-five members of the Profession were present; and the only issue of the discussion was authorising the Secretary of the Meeting, Dr. Edwards Crisp, to forward copies of the resolutions passed, to the Lord President of the Privy Council, the President of the Medical Council, and the Presidents of the several Medical Corpora- tions, f It is now for the profession to determine how the move- ment shall be carried on. Incomplete as this retrospect must remain, two other facts deserve notice. The influence of the British Medical Association has been very ably and beneficially exercised in the late contest on behalf of the Profession; and it would be unjust not to acknow- ledge, that the result has been in great measure owing to the exertions of Dr. Edward Waters, of Chester, the Presi- dent of the Direct Representation Committee of the Associa- tion. It is suggested as matter for reflection, whether the action of the Association was not narrowed and somewhat crippled, by the very title and instructions of its Represen- tation Committee. The Profession must direct its energies to a comprehensive Reform of the Medical Act of 1858. No incident has been more significant than the appeal of tho Council of the College of Surgeons to the great body of Fellows and Members, to act with them in petitioning Parlia- ment for the restoration of Clause 18. Advertisements for the meeting were duly published; the right of meeting in the Theatre of the College had been a crying want for many years; and yet when the right was conceded, when a most important crisis in the history of the Profession was at hand; when * All the Medical Weeklies, the Times, the Scotsman, the Daily Telegraph, the Birmingham Post, Gazette, and Herald, the Dublin, Belfast, and Aberdeen papers. f A Summary of the proceeding was also sent, by Dr. Edwards Crisp's good offices, to 400 Members of Parliament.