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 answer to Dr. Lyon Playfair, the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education made the following announcement in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the 25th July :— “ The Government found themselves reluctantly under the necessity of withdrawing this Bill, as it would bo impossible at this period of the Session to deal with the question of the constitution of the Medical Council, which there was a desire in some quarters that the Bill should embrace.” Under the circumstances, it is deemed advisable to review the chief events which attended the introduction, the modifi- cation, and the ultimate withdrawal of the Government measure. It is hoped by this retrospect to utilize acquired experience, which may serve the profession in renewed endeavours to obtain the indispensable Amendment of the Medical Act of 1858, and of the fragmentary Acts subse- quently passed, with the professed object of amending it. It is not proposed to relate events in chronological order; neither is it thought necessary to record all the facts of the contest in and out of Parliament, of which the first stage has just terminated.