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A57783	The Statutes of the Colledge of Physicians London worthy to be perused by all men, but more especially physicians, lawyers, apothecaries, surgeons, and all such that either do, or shall study, profess, or practise physick.	Royal College of Physicians of London.	1693 (1693)	Wing R2123; ESTC R218472	54,797	234

the fine of those who are absent as often as it shall happen go to the use of the Reader for the time being and that it is establish'd that a due payment be made of all those before they can be admitted into the Colledge for we judge it unfit besides the honour of the Art and the dignity of the Colledge that our Reader expecting Auditors should to no purpose lose his labour and pains CHAP. XIX Of the Ornament and Cloathing of Phisicians WE appoint according to the advice of Hyppocrates That all the Fellows be cloathed with a decent Garb as often as they come to the Colledge or go forth in publick lest the excellency and dignity of our Art by reason of slovingliness should be reproached and contemned by the Vulgar Wherefore we appoint and ordain That the President and Pro-President Electors Censors and all other Fellows in all greater Meetings Feasts of the Collegues Funerals and Anatomical Administrations be cloathed with Gown and other decent apparel upon penalty of five shillings to be paid to the Colledge as often as they shall be delinquent CHAP XX. Of Funeral Ceremonies IF it happen that any one of the Collegues die unless he die of the Plague every Collegue lawfully admonish'd by the Beadle shall be obliged to be present at the Funeral and to follow in his Order and attend at the other Funeral Rites and Ceremonies under penalty of Three shillings and four pence to be paid to the use of the Colledge Moreover We will for the honour of the Colledge that a Seat for the President in the Church be adorned with Tepestry or Hangings and a decent Cushion for so long time as the Funeral Offices and other Divine Solemnities are celebrated CHAP. XXI Of Feastings BEcause by honest Meetings mutual love is maintained and the minds of studious men recreated We will that all who have been admitted into the Society of the Colledge entertain the President and all the Fellows in Town at a frugal honest and sufficient Feast and that at a time first appointed by the President But he appointeth it on the day of the ordinary or greater Meetings or on what day he thinks fit of the fifteen next following the Feast of St. Michael the Nativity of our Saviour Easter or the Nativity of St. John Baptist The Feast over it shall be lawful in the same place excluding foreign Arbiters to call a Meeting and treat of the business of the Colledge if the matter require it and the President and Counsellers shall judge it necessary But if at any time it shall happen that he whose duty it is to provide a Feast cannot conveniently perform it and therefore for some just and honest cause to be approved by the President and greater part of the Society he shall desire of the Society to be kindly released from this Law and freed from that charge we leave the whole matter to be moderated at the discretion of the President and Society Yet whatever Collegue shall obtain this favour that he be released from providing a Feast he shall pay to the use of the Colledge Ten or Twenty Pounds according as it shall seem reasonable to the President and greater part of the Fellows CHAP. XXII Of Moral Conversation and Penal Statutes IF any strife or controversie arise from the order gravity and modesty which we prescribe to be observed in our Meetings not duly observed whoever shall offend may be punished at the pleasure of the President or Pro-President and Censors But if the President shall commit any thing against the Statutes let him be admonish'd by the Consiliarii or Assistants before the Fellows in our Meetings but not punished unless for some grievous Crime such as is robbery or wasteing the goods of the Colledge and the like so adjudged by the greater part of the Fellows among whom we will that there be four of the Electors who together with the rest shall give their judgement on that matter So much we attribute to the Honour and Authority of the President Let none reveal or divulge any thing of any moment that is said in the Colledge under the penalty of Ten shillings No Collegue shall by name accuse another either of ignorance or ill practice or any villany or ignominious crime or publickly reproach any of the Colledge If it shall appear to the President and Censors that any has acted contrany the first time he shall pay to the use of the Colledge Four pounds The second the Mulct shall be doubled but if any shall offend the third time he shall be expelled the Colledge neither shall he be restored again before he has paid Ten pounds to the Colledge No Phisician who shall be called second to a sick person shall cause the former Phisician to be turned away nor shall he innovate any thing before unless the matter be urgent he shall meet him and that there be no place for deceit whoever is sent for to a Sick Person he shall ask of him or the By-standers whether any hath prescribed a Medicine under the Penalty of Twenty Shillings Yet afterwards at the pleasure of the Sick be shall alone Cure him or Administer the business with the former Physician or with any other Yet he shall do his endeavour as much as in him lies that he retain the former with him in Practice But if that cannot be done with the Consent of the Sick Person or the Friends he shall in no manner dispraise the former Physician neither by Countenance Gesture Suspicious Silence or by any other means blame his Actions to the Sick or By-standers but he shall rather praise him and that not deccitfully by the Name of Honesty and Goodness but what chiesly pertains to the matter of a Skilful and Intelligent Physician always remembring that he have the Reputation of another with others in that esteem which if the Case were altered he would desire his own to wit for the Honour and Dignity of the Art he professeth The Form of Consultation IF any for Cure sake shall meet to deliberate on the Condition of the Sick they must consult with the greatest Modesty and not unless Forreign Arbiters are secluded But let the business be transacted in Latine otherwise let there be a Fine of five Shillings for the use of the Colledge First of all they must diligently inquire into the Species or Kind Cause and Symptoms of the Disease and then Remedies most convenient for the Destruction of the Disease and Mitigation of Symptoms are to be propounded Let the Junior Phisician begin let the Senior conclude But if any Senior shall be first sent sor let him first relate the whole matter to the rest to wit what he hath done and with what success then let them act as is Directed If they shall often meet to visit the same sick person let none prescribe any thing nay let him not so much as hint what is to be done before the sick or by-standers before with joyned

Permission who is not Phisician to the King or the Royal Family and to whom a Salary hath been assigned or who by chance shall come out of the Countrey with no design of staying in the City under the penalty of Ten pounds 3. Let no Phisician who shall be called second to a sick person cause the former Phisician to be repelled or put by nor shall he alter any thing unless the matter be urgent before he meet his Collegue and that there be no place for deceit whoever is sent for to a sick person shall inquire of him or the by-standers whether any one hath prescribed any Medicine under the penalty of Forty shillings the first time the second Five pounds but if any shall in like manner offend the third time he shall be expelled the Colledge 4. If to visit the same sick person two or more Phisicians shall meet together let none prescribe any thing nay let him not so much as hint what is to be done in presence of the sick or by-standers before with joynt counsel in private it shall he concluded betwixt them lest he seem too ambitiously to fore-stall Practice and snatch the free opportunity of preseribing from all the rest unless by some sudden and urgent occasion and that to be approved by the President and Censors he shall be compelled to prescribe alone under the penalty of Five pounds as often as he is delinquent but if any shall be found often to offend in this matter or part let him be removed from the Colledge with ignominy 5. Lest any strife or controversie should arise between Phisicians for officious visitings forestallments and insinuations we appoint and ordain that when other Phisicians shall be called to any Phisician to consult that the elder Phisician or same other relate to the sick or by-standers what by common consent have been approved and prescribed and let the rest leave the execution thereof to the ordinary Phisician nor shall they again visit the sick unless expresly desired to do so by the ordinary Phisician or from the sick person on the penalty of Five pounds as often as they shall be found delinquent 6. None shall refuse to pay Subscriptions or Payments due or lastly Fines inflicted on them for default according to the Statutes under penalty of expulsion from the Colledge 7. Seeing by the wandering Discourse of men there is a report that some Phisicians of our Community after the manner of Empericks disperse Bills among the common People whereby they may hawk out a sordid and mean practice among the ordinary sort of people and in the mean time bring no small dishonour to the faculty of Physick We Appoint and Ordain that no Collegue Print Divulge or by any means Publish any Book Treatise Table Paper or Pamphlet whatsoever wherein is contained any thing that relates to the Art of Phisick or Chirurgery or the Practice of them without leave and approbation of the President and Censors or the greater part of them under the penalty of four pounds the first time eight pounds the second but the third Expulsion from the Colledge 8. If by chance any Chirurgeon or Apothecary shall offer himself to the President and Censors to be examined that he may be received into the number of Candidates or Licentiates We will that he before Examination or at least before Admission be wholly discharged from all Tie and Obligation wherewith he was formerly oblidged to his Community for we do not think it just or convenient to admit any into our Society who hath his Faith oblidged to another 9. Because it is found by Experience that the Apothecaries from the Prescripts of Physicians attain some pretence or shadow of false Knowledge every where boasting themselves to Sick Persons which they abuse not without the hazard of others to their own profit We Determine and Ordain that no Collegue for the future either Fellow Candidate or Licentiate add Directions as they call them to their Prescripts or Physical Scrowls save only in Hospitals but he shall leave them with the Sick or at least take care that they be first signed and carried to his house in the mean time let him command that the Medicines prescribed in the Scrowls be only signed with some agreeable titles or apt notes for their distinction to the intent that as much as in us lies nothing at all be smelt out by this sort of Medicasters with what design intention or for what uses the Remedies are prescribed let every one be fined Twenty Shillings for the use of the Colledge as often as they shall fail in this part 10. Let no Fellow Candidate or Permissive make use of an Apothecary whom in the greater Meetings at which all Collegues of all ranks are fore-warned that they be present the President hath renounced or declared to practice Phisick or has been twice about that matter summoned to appear before the President and Censors and has not appeared on the penalty of Forty shillings the first time the second five pounds and the third Expulsion from the Colledge Let the Office of the President and Censors be to inquire into such like causes weigh the matters and define who is guilty of Practice and whom they or the greater part of them shall judge so we determine and will that he be called and is a Practising Apothecary Lastly We charge and command the Fellows with all the rest of the Collegues that laying aside all affection and respest of persons that whatsomever Apothecaries of that sort they find to have practised they bring their names to the President and Censors and that under the penalty of breach of Faith given to the Colledge 11. Whereas some of our Statutes seem more severely to have constituted the penalty of Expulsion to Delinquents so that all hope and expectation of returning into the Colledge being precluded and no place is left for repentance it hath seemed good so to moderate this severity of Laws with some mixture of clemency that if any expelled out of the Colledge openly ingenuously and submissively confess his Crime in the greater Meetings and withal presently pay whatever Fines have been formerly laid on him for defaults and ten pounds besides for the use of the Colledge on these Conditions it may be lawful for the President and greater part of the Fellows to restore him to his former Place State and Dignity 12. We appoint that every year on the same day and with the same suffrages wherewith the Censors are wont to be created that ten men be chose out of the Fellows that are more fit then the rest to expedite and dispatch business in the number of which we will always have the President who for the following year are the stated Delegates or Committee men and it may be lawful for them at any time according to their pleasure to meet discourse and handle matters of any sort relating to the Profit or Honour of the Colledge to relate their Opinions and Consults

shall be substituted by the President and Electors yet we will that he keep his place and dignity in the Colledge if in the mean time he shall certifie the President of the cause of his absence He shall promise that he will give his Consent or Vote for none to be created President or Elector unless according to the form of the Statute and that he perfectly know and understand his gravity learning honest behaviour decent age and sincere affection to the Colledge and the Common-wealth and readiness to perform his duty CHAP. II. Of the President and his Office WHo is to be President shall be appointed for a year and must be of the number of Electors and whom the other Electors present either all or most shall judge fit in respect of time business and person and it shall be done at that time of the year which is already appointed when we treated of the Electors to wit the day after St. Michael if conveniently it may be done c. as before in the Chapter of Creating the Electors It is provided for and determined if the Suffrages are equal that party shall carry it in which the greater number of the Seniors shall be but if these also shall be equal that shall prevail to which the Old President or he being dead or absent the born President inclines We call the born President the Senior of the Electors who though he carry the name of President yet hath no power to make or change Statutes but in administring and performing the Office of a President in other things relating to the business of the Colledge let him have a full power according to the true meaning of the Statutes If any Elector refuse the Office of a President conferred on him he shall be fined forty shillings unless he be the Kings Physician The Covenant or Faith given by the President HE shall promise That he will to his power endeavour that the honour of the Colledge be preserved the Statutes thereof without fraud observed and that he will act all things for the health of the Publick and the honest Profit of the Colledge The President of the former year if he be present shall demand the Faith from the New President or one of the Consiliarii or Assistants especially the Senior if he be present or these being absent the Senior of the Electors then present He that shall demand his suretyship let him hold forth the Ensigns of Government The Cushion to wit of Honour the Book and Caduceus or Mace and let him say We give to thee the Authority of a President and deliver the Cushion of Honour the Book of Knowledge and the Caduceus or Mace of Government and Prudence that your Excellency and all the other Colleagues may understand our Colledge firmly to be establish'd by Knowledge and Prudence wherefore that you may not forget you shall take care that the Book and Mace as a sign of Knowledge and Prudence be carried by the Beadle before you in all solemn Meetings Funeral Ceremonies and at other times and places convenient that what honour requires that use may confirm The Manner of Laying down the Office THe Duty of Governing being discharged let the President laying down his Office having finished what Prologue he please say I lay down the Authority of Governing and in the name of all return it into your hands some other to wit the Senior of the Consiliarii or Assistants chiefly or these being absent the Senior Elector present that it may be lawful to whom the power of Choice belongs to elect and substitute whom they please therefore I return to you the Cushion of Honour the Book of Knowledge and the Mace of prudent Government and I wish all happiness to the Colledge and you all Which done to whom the power is conferred let him propose for choice whom they judge most fit for that Office but let him be chose after that manner which in the beginning of this Chapter is ordained and let him with a loud voice and by name pronounce him who is chosen according to the Statutes elected for President and command that all esteem him for the President lastly he shall demand his Suretyship from him in the same form as is before-mentioned Let the Office of the President be to appoint Meetings but after what manner shall be spoken by and by when we determine of the Comitia or Meetings and also to propose the cause of Meetings to receive the opinion of every one and to determine for the major part and to exclude factions and partios Let him with the rest whom that matter shall concern choose the Electors Assistants and Censors of learning manners and medicines In choosing Colleagues let him first receive the Suffrages of others afterwards give his own and determine for the greater part Let him compose differences between the Colleagues but that by common advice and opinion of the Electors and Censors separately made use of and in that manner which afterwards in the Chapter of the Consiliarii or Assistants shall be spoken more fully Moreover let him take care that the Common Seal be safely kept in a Chest he shall sign all things to which the other Fellows according to their duty and the Statute have consented If any Books are given to the Colledge he shall take care that they be placed in the Library and at the years end let an Accompt of them be given to the New President and let them be shewed to him by name in the Index If there be any Revenue or yearly income by the Lands of the Colledge if any thing be given to the Colledge if any thing come by any other names let him take care that it be kept in the Common Chest whereof let him have one Key and likewise each of the Consiliarii or Assistants one Let him require an A●compt of the Receipts and Disbursements of the last year from the Treasurer and other Officers of the Colledge in presence of the other Electors at that time in Town all whom we would have summoned to be at the making up the Accompts if conveniently they can but let him more especially take care that the Statutes be diligently observed and read in the Colledge either by him or the Register or some other as it shall seem good to him to wit in that manner which is afterwards provided and appointed in the Statutes CHAP. III. Of the Pro-President IT shall be lawful for the President being detained in the service of the Prince or in the cure of some great Nobleman or oppressed by the multitude of other business to choose and substitute for himself a Pro-President but let him be the born President if conveniently by age business or health it may be If otherwise one of the Electors who excels in gravity sound judgement experience diligence and cheerfulness of acting according to the will and pleasure of the President His Office shall be to supply the place of the absent President in