MEDICAL BILL. 
501 
General Council. All medical practitioners are to be regis- 
tered in a form prescribed in schedule D, according to their 
respective qualifications. Registrars and other officers are to 
be appointed, and the registers are to be kept in correct order 
by the erasure of the names of practitioners deceased, and 
the addition of the names of all who enter the profession. 
Such additions may be made on the application of the indi- 
viduals or on the production of evidence from the college or 
body in schedule A, a fee being paid in either case not exceed- 
ing two pounds for each practitioner so registered.” 
“The General Council is authorised to take measures for 
procuring the revocation of the power to confer the right of 
registration in the case of any of the bodies in schedule A 
whose course of study and examination shall appear to the 
said council to be not such as to secure the requisite amount 
of qualification. The register is to be published annually, on 
the 1st of January, under the title of ‘The Medical Register. 5 
Every person registered under the Act is to be entitled to 
recover charges for professional services, &c. Provided 
always, that it shall be lawful for any College of Physicians 
to pass a bye-law to the effect that no one of their fellows or 
members shall be entitled to sue in any court of law for such 
charges. The colleges of physicians have a peculiar an- 
tipathy to the privilege of suing their patients, this being 
an ancient distinction between a professional man and a 
tradesman. 55 
“No person not registered under the Act is to be empowered 
to hold certain offices, no medical certificate is to be valid 
unless the person signing it is registered, and the words 
legally qualified medical practitioner shall mean a person 
registered under this Act. Suitable penalties are provided 
for the fraudulent assumption of titles and other false 
pretences.” 
“ The College ol Physicians of London is empowered to 
obtain a new charter, subject to certain conditions, among 
which is that of admitting any fellow, member, or licentiate 
of the Edinburgh and Dublin Colleges of Physicians re- 
spectively, who is practising in England, on payment of a 
registration fee of two pounds, as a member of the said 
College of Physicians of England. The College of Surgeons 
is empowered to adopt measures for instituting an exa- 
mination for dentists. Sect. 51 is as follows: 4 The General 
Council shall cause to be published under their direction a 
book containing a list of medicines and compounds, and the 
manner of preparing them, together with the true weights 
and measures by which they are to be prepared, and con- 
