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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

sibi arripientes Medicis verò nihil praeter exilem illam jejunam Urinarum spectandarum mercedem afferentes Idcirco Statuimus Ordinamus Ut nemo sive Socius sive Candidatus sive Permissus Consilii quidquam impertiat istiusmodi veteratoriis Impostoribus super Urinarum nudâ Inspectione nisi simul ad aegrum vocetur ut ibidem pro re natâ idonea Medicamenta ab honesto aliquo Phamacopolâ componenda praescribat Volumus praeterea ut singulis Schaedulis sive Receptis ut vocant diem Mensis nomen Aegri suumque quisque adscribat Ridiculum quidem est insulsum ex Urinarum solummodò Inspectione sive de Morbi Genere Naturâ sive de Aegrotantis Statu ac Conditione Aruspicum conjectorum more velle quidquem certi solidique divinare Monemus igitur omnes Medicos ut hâc in re Multò cautiùs in posterum se gerant quam antehac à plerisque factitare solitum hanc ob causam omnibus Medicinam exercentibus interdictum volumus ne Idiotis istis Mulierculis Aegrotantium matulas circumferentibus aliquod Medicamentum praescribant nisi aut ipsum aegrum priùs rectè noverint aut saltem ab iis qui consilium petunt de Morbo ejusque circumstantiis planè plenè instructi fuerint Quippe hac ratione dignitatem Medicinae meliùs tuebimur multò aptiùs certiusque Remedia pericilitantibus profutura excogitabimus Denique Statuimus Ordinamus Ut quicunque admittuntur in Societatem Collegii subscriptis nominibus polliceantur se Statuta omnia praedicta diligentèr observaturos aut Mulctas contra facientibus inflictas non invito animo persoluturos Si ad hanc normam Collegium prudenti consilio Praesidis Electorum Censorum gubernetur debito obedienti caeterorum officio honestetur exterminatis indoctis profligatisque odiosis Impostoribus scientiâ decoretur certissimum est florentissimum futurum hoc nostrum Collegium in perpetuum universae etiam Reipublicae quantum nostra officia attinet rectè providèque consultum iri Quare per Fidem illam Collegio datam Socios omnes hortamur obtestamur ut quoquoversum diligentèr prospiciant providentèr agant nec quemquam respectu personarum habito admittant in Societatem Collegii sed ad Laudem Decus Honorem Perpetuitatem Societatis omnia decernant quoniam certum est Collegium nostrum nullâ re firmiùs stabiliri posse continuari quam bonis Legibus Probis Gubernatorum Moribus Collegarum singulari Virtute atque eruditione FINIS THE Statutes or By-Laws OF THE COLLEDGE OF Physicians of London WHereas by the Private Grace of Our most Sovereign King HENRY VIII and by the Publick Decrees of Parliament It is ordained That a Colledge of Physicians of London be Established for the Honour of the Kingdom and the Health of the Publick that it be defended with Priviledges enrich'd with Possessions dignified with Electors governed by a President and Censors and directed by Statutes or By-Laws and endowed with a Power of making them a-new should be assisted with Consiliarii or Assistants and perpetuated by Learning it seemed also most advisable to Vs That We prescribe first who are to be the Electors and what their Office is also who is to be President and after what manner and of whom he is to be chosen by what Law obliged and what his Office and Power is and lastly what his Place and Dignity is and then who are to be the Consiliarii or Assistants and what on their faith given is to be performed by them and what their Office Place and Power is who are to be made Censors or Governours of Learning Manners and also Medicines and what Office upon Oath is to be performed by them what is the Office of a Treasurer Register and Beadle lastly what becomes the rest for their own honour and the glory of the Colledge and by what Covenant they are obliged if any Statutes are to be made or if any are to be abrogated after what manner that ought to be done what is the Form of the Comitia or Meetings Examinations and Admissions what account to be had of an Offence with others and what universally of right belongs to all persons and business of the Colledge for nothing is durable that wanteth Reason Form and Order CHAP. I. Of Creating the Electors WE Constitute therefore and Ordain That out of the number of the Fellows Eight only Electors be created who for gravity learning manners and age excel the rest and that they be dignified with the Degree of Doctor and are by birth English men whose Office it shall be by the Authority of the Colledge the day after St. Michael if conveniently it can be done but if for some great impediments that will not be lawful then on some other day for that business more convenient so that it be within a week from the time appointed in the greater Comitia or Meetings to choose a President out of the number of the Electors if the President of the foregoing year having performed his annual Office be remaining but if he be wanting as soon as that can conveniently be done to substitute another at the most within Twenty days after he has been wanting but we understand a President or an Elector to be wanting if he be either dead or expelled the Colledge or departed from the City with his family and he be wanting for a whole year unless he be in the service of the Prince If one or more of the Elect have been so wanting let one or more by a New Election be substituted in his or their place out of the rest of the Fellows who shall be of the same Nation Degree Manners Learning and Rank within Thirty or at most Forty days but so that at those Comitia or Meetings only the Electors be present to the intent that a more free Election be made and a more just examination of manners wisdom gravity and learning all which vertues are chiefly required by the Statutes of the Kingdom in an Elector He that is to be chosen shall first be examined by the Electors as is provided for by the Statutes of the Kingdom then let him be chosen by the consent of them all if it may be if not by the greatest part but if their Votes are even by the senior part And if by reason of the reigning of a Plague or some other cause the Electors are out of Town so that a certain day cannot be appointed then it shall be lawful for the President at what time and place conveniently may be to call the Electors If any of the Electors have left the City and made his aboad with his Family for the space of a whole year in any place beyond seven miles from the City he unless he be the Kings Physician or otherwise detained in the service of the Prince shall lose his place among the Electors and another

acting and administring all business of the Colledge which cannot conveniently be performed by the President Let his Place and Dignity be according to his degree and seniority unless when the President is wanting for then he shall possess the place of the President but only in the Colledge to wit in the ordinary place of meetings But we understand the President to be absent not only if he be without the City and Suburbs but also if detained by any disease or more weighty business in the City he cannot be present But in these cases we will that he make known his absence either by a Letter writ with his own hand or by the Beadle of the Colledge His Office shall continue according to the business He shall give his faith if the Electors think it fit that he according to his ability will take care of the business of the Colledge committed to him and will diligently act all things for the honour and profit of the Colledge and will act nothing unless with the judgement and advice of the President or Assistants and those Fellows whom by the Statutes it shall concern CHAP. IV. Of the Consiliarii or Assistants THe day after St. Michael if conveniently it can be done c. as before in the Chapter of Creating the Electors in the ordinary Meetings presently after the Election of a President let the same Electors choose two for the Consiliarii or Assistants out of their own Order that shall be fit for this Office with the assent either of all or the greater number of the Electors then present if their suffrages shall be even that part shall carry it wherein there shall be more of the Seniors if these also shall be equal then that to which the President shall incline They shall give their faith that they will honestly and justly as becometh good men laying aside all affection perform their duty Their duty is always to attend the President in the greater Comitia or Meetings to assist with their labour and counsel where need shall be never to be absent unless some extrardinary matter compel and lest at that time the place should be void let him that shall be wanting substitute in his place anoanother Elector till he shall return but with the consent of the President or he being absent of the Pro-President If any strife or controversie concerning any doubtful matter or the genuine interpretation of some Statute or any discord of this sort arise among the Colleagues we will all that matter be quietly and calmly composed by the President Assistants and Censors or by the greater part of them Likewise if between the President and Colleagues any controversie shall arise we will that the whole matter be decided by the Assistants and Censors or by the greater part of them but if it cannot be so composed then we will that other Electors be joyned also to those fore-mentioned Arbiters that by the suffrages of all these or of the greater part the whole matter in controversie may be decided And we will that this rule be observed in decently suppressing all wranglings of the Colleagues for by this means we hope it will which especially is to be wish'd that brawling scoldings and contentions be avoided and brotherly love with a sweet consent of minds and wills daily grow together and be consirmed for ever If one of the Assistants either die or be otherwise wanting before he hath compleated the year let another within fifteen days be deputed Let none refuse the Office of an Assistant under the penalty of Forty Shillings unless he be the Kings Physician As often as the President shall ask their advice let them be ready or else let them pay each of them Three Shillings and four pence unless some urgent matter shall hinder whereof when they next return they shall better certifie the President CHAP. V. Of the Censors AFter the President chosen and the Assistants presently in the same Meetings we appoint and ordain That every year four men learned and grave be chosen whether they shall be Electors or Fellows whom we will have named Censors or Governours of the Colledge of London Let their Election be by the Suffrages of the President and whole Society or of the greater part secretly received Let their Office be to inquire after all persons practising Physick whether they be our Countrey-men or Foreigners thorow the City and Suburbs and within Seven miles in circuit thereof to examine correct and govern them and if need be of a Law Suit together with the President and Treasurer to persecute to inquire their Methods of Cure to condemn their Medicines to search the Apothecaries Shops to judge of their Medicines to burn or any other ways to destroy the corrupt and if the Apothecaries withstand or oppose to refer the matter to the President and the Colledge and to perform all these things for the health of the Publick and the honour of the Colledge The Oath of the Censors or Governours THey shall swear before the President That they will decree none to be admitted into the Colledge but whom all affection laid aside they shall judge fit both for learning and manners neither to approve any man or any medicine for hire intreaty or favour and in other things honestly to perform their Office as God shall help them and the Holy Gospel Let no Fellow refuse the Office of a Censor under the penalty of Forty shillings unless he be the Kings Physician CHAP. VI. Of the Manner and Time of the Comitia or Meetings and of the Caduceator or Beadle THree days before the solemn Meetings are to be or the day before that day if the matter be urgent by the Authority of the President all the Colleagues are to be summoned by the Beadle or the servant of the Presidents that they be present at the Meetings to be such a day hour and place prescribed Whither when they are come let each seat themselves in that order which shall afterwards be spoken we call Comitia Meetings or as King Henry in his Diploma nameth them Congregations of the Collegues and we judge these Meetings solemn or the greater legitimate at which all the Collegues in the City are admonished by the Beadle to be present and in which twelve Fellows at the least are present beside the President Let this be the manner of Summons Mr. President intreateth your Excellency worthy Doctor that you be present at a Meeting held such a Month day hour and place prescribed by the President Lastly let him subscribe it after this manner A. V. B. that is By your Authority Beadle Let the Beadle be an honest man and let him promise that he will faithfully and diligently serve the President and the Colledge in all business belonging to the Colledge without fraud or guile Moreover let him promise that he will neither for hire intreaty or favour divulge the secrets of the Colledge to any one Let his Office be to write scrowls of

to the Society in the greater Meetings Lastly to execute and perform all other things that our most Soveraign Prince James the Second in Letters Patents lately given us hath committed to our charge 13. In the Election of a Treasurer we will that altogether the same form be observed which is before appointed by us in creating the Censors to wit that he be chose after the same manner at the same time and by the same Suffrages and moreover we appoint that the Treasurer now Elect before he be admitted to his Office be oblidged by a Bond signed with his own Seal to the President and our Society that at the summons of the same President and Electors he to them and four other Fellows appointed to this purpose by the Colledge shall faithfully give an account of what is received and disburst and lastly the Accounts made up whatsomever the sum of the Remainder due to the Colledge shall be he will pay it to the said Colledge within twenty days after the Account is made up Let the Witnesses made use of to this Bond be three Foreigners who are joyned with us by no right of Community 14. We will that the Seal of the Colledge for the future be set to no Letters Testimonial save to those Fellows to whom at the time of their Admission by the Statutes it is granted to have that is to those who have a right of Voting in greater Meetings But let them pay the Beadle ten Shillings for these Letters as for others by which a Licence to practice without the City is granted us being signed by the Hands and Seals of the President only and three of the Elect let the Licentiates pay six shillings and eight pence 15. Whereas formerly there was no convenient place within the Colledge wherein our Writings might be kept we have thought good for these uses in the Study of Henry Guy Esq to build a Desk or Paper-Treasury whereof let there be Four Keys one of them let the President have another the Treasurer and both the two Senior Censors likewise one in this Place and Custody we will that the Diplomata of Princes Bonds and other Instruments of the Colledge and lastly all Papers whatsomever of that sort and Parchments which are of greater moment be contained and kept but we forbid that any thing be brought out thence without the consent of the Colledge unless by chance or some urgent necessity it shall otherwise seem good to the Committee or President and Censors besides we appoint that in the same place be laid up the Common Seal of the Colledge in a small Cabinet made for this purpose whose Key let the President have and as often as need shall be let him open it in the greater Meetings neither will we that our Common Seal be affixed to any Instrument elsewhere then in the aforesaid Assemblies 16. We appoint and ordain That no Chirurgeen Apothecary or any such Artificer be admitted into the Order of Candidates on Fellows whoever hath exercised any less liberal Art or bound to Servitude hath laid his beginning in a Shop lest peradventure if we should so choose such into the Colledge we might seem not sufficiently to have consulted either our own Dignity or the Honour of the Vniversities of England which notwithstanding we ought and always will Honour with the highest Veneration FINIS STATUTA NOVA Praesidis Collegii seu Communitatis Facultatis MEDICINAE LONDINI per Praesidem Collegii seu Communitatem praedictam per consensum Praesidis Collegii seu Communitatis praedictae Anno 1687 facta ut rata firma ac certa permaneant Sigillo Communi ejusdem Collegii seu Communitatis praedictae 28 die Septembris 1687 munita 1. UT nè quis cuiquam praeterquam Sociis absentibns revelet aut propalet Secreta Collegii aut quidquam alicujus momenti quod in Comitiis sive majoribus sive minoribus dictum sit sub poenâ Quadraginta solidorum primâ vice Quin que librarum secundâ vice tertiâ Expulsionis à Collegio id autem omne pro secreto re momenti haberi volumus quicquid à Praeside vel Censorum praesentium duobus Senioribus celandum esse in Comitiis pronuntiatum fuerit 2. Nullus Medicus sive Socius sive Candidatus sive Permissus Consilium ineat cum Empirico aut Rejecto à Collegio aut à Medicinae praxi prohibito aut aliô aliquô sine Admissione aut Permissione Medicinam exercente qui non sit Medicus Regius aut Regiae Familiae cui Stipendium assignatum fuerit vel qui fortè è Rure advenerit nullô in Urbe commorandi Consiliô sub poena Decem librarum 3. Nullus Medicus qui secundus ad aegrum vocabitur priorem Medicum repelli saciat nec quidquam priùs innovabit nisi res urgeat quàm Collegam convenerit ne quis fraudi locus sit quicunque ad aegrum accersitur ab illo vel astantibus percunctabitur an quis Medicamentum aliquod praescripserit sub poenâ Quadraginta solidorum primâ vice secundâ Quinque librarum si quis autem tertiâ vice pariter offenderit expelletur à Collegio 4. Si ad eundem aegrum visendum duo vel plures Medici simul convenerint nemo quidquam praescribat immò ne innuat quidem quid agendum sit coram aegro vel adstantibus priusquàm conjunctis Consiliis privatim inter ipsos conclusum fuerit nè ambitiosè nimiùm videatur praxin praeoccupare reliquis liberam praescribendi ansam praeripere nisi subita urgente aliquâ occasione eàque approbandâ à Praeside Censoribus coactus fuerit solus praescribere sub poenâ quinque librarum quoties deliquerit quod si quis in hac parte saepius offendisse deprehendetur à Collegio cum ignominiâ amoveatur 5. Ne qua lis aut Controversia inter Medicos propter officiosas visitationes praeoccupationes insinuationes oriatur statuimus ordinamus ut quum ad Medicum quemlibet alii Medici consultandi gratiâ advocati fuerint Senior Medicus vel alius aliquis referat aegro aut adstantibus quae approbata praescripta communi consensu fuerint eorundemque executionem caeteri ordinario Medico relinquant nec denuò visitabunt aegrum nisi à Medico ordinario aut ab aegro ut id faciant expressè rogati fuerint sub poenâ quinque librarum toties quoties deliquerint 6. Nemo subscriptiones aut solutiones debitas aut denique Mulctas sibi pro delicto secundùm Statuta inflictas solvere recusabit sub poenâ expulsionis è Collegio 7. Quoniam pervagato hominnm sermone fama percrebuit quosdam nostrae Communitatis Medicos Empericorum more Schedulas in vulgus spargere quibus ut inter plebeios sordidam illiberalem praxin aucupentur facultati interim Medicinae haud levem ignominiae labem aspergunt Statuimus Ordinamus nè quis Collega Typis Mandet divulget aut quoquô modô in