General Medical Council : on the claim, asserted by the Royal College of Physicians, that the College of itself, apart from any other examining authority, can grant such letters-testimonial or licenses in medicine, surgery and midwifery, as shall be valid diplomas of qualification under Sections 2 and 3 of the Medical Act, 1886 : notes preparatory to legal consultation / by Sir John Simon.

  • Simon, Sir John, 1816-1904.
Date:
[1892]
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Credit: General Medical Council : on the claim, asserted by the Royal College of Physicians, that the College of itself, apart from any other examining authority, can grant such letters-testimonial or licenses in medicine, surgery and midwifery, as shall be valid diplomas of qualification under Sections 2 and 3 of the Medical Act, 1886 : notes preparatory to legal consultation / by Sir John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    .r. ^ma ■»(w. 3 Claim, asserted by the Roa”al College of Physicians, ,i,t the College of itself, apart from any other Examin- r Authority, can grant such Letters-Testimonial or ;enses in MEomiNE^SuRGERY and Midwifery, as shall IIPLOMAS of Q uALIFICATiON^nder Sections 2 and 3 e Medical Act, 1886♦^ ^ A . UETitTIQN. far as the General Medical Council and the Royal The Oasua p.)f Physicians may find themselves irreconcilably at issue uestion of giving effect to a command of law, it can only - 3 appointed Courts of Judicature to pronounce decisively I them; and a crisis of that sort appears now to have arisen, I'.t of the Council’s demurrer to the claim which the uddresses to it for the registration of certain diplomas Ite Council does not find to be of suflSciently proven legal rag probable that the Council will shortly have to con- I ts legal advisers as to the grounds on which its demurrer ■im of the College shall be justified, the following notes I'ltted by their writer as a connected view of the con- i's he thinks most material in the case of the Council. |.liminarily, for non-medical participators in the discus- Notice as ^points have to be made clear with regard to the ever- I’derms “ Medicine ” and “ Physic ” : first, that, in the 1‘siness, those two terms can be taken as exact equiva- ineaning, interchangeable one with the other; and I .bat neither of the two can pass muster in this argu- |?S8 the sense in which it shall be understood has been A