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MEDICAL KILL. 
taining such other matter and things relating thereto as 
the General Council shall think fit, to be called “ British 
Pharmacopoeia/ and the General Council shall cause to be 
altered, amended, and republished, such Pharmacopoeia as 
often as they shall deem it necessary/” 
62. (s Nothing in this Act shall extend, or be construed to 
extend, to prejudice or in any way to affect the lawful occu- 
pation, trade, or business of chemists and druggists, and 
dentists, or the rights, privileges, or employment of duly 
licenced apothecaries in Ireland, so far as the same extend to 
selling, compounding, or dispensing, medicines. ” 
“ It is needless here to enumerate the provisions respecting 
the meetings of the General Council and Branch Councils, 
the filling-up of vacancies, the removal from the register of 
the names of unworthy practitioners, the remuneration of 
officers, and the payment of expenses under the Act, with 
other matters of detail. The general aim of the Act is to 
ensure uniformity of qualification in the United Kingdom, so 
that, for example, the degree of M.D. obtained in any 
university in England shall represent the same amount and 
quality of education which would be implied by the same 
degree conferred b}^ a university in Scotland or Ireland. 
With this view, the General Council is to have jurisdiction 
over all the colleges and bodies granting degrees, with power 
to regulate the course of study, and to attend or depute 
persons to attend any of the examinations, While the 
Colleges of Physicians occupy a prominent position among 
the bodies in schedule A, represented in the General Council, 
it is optional with graduates in medicine whether they join 
either of the said colleges or not, and unless some arrange- 
ment be made by the colleges themselves, offering an induce- 
ment to graduates to become fellows or members, these 
bodies, which ought in each branch of the kingdom to repre- 
sent the entire medical department, will subside into local 
corporations, rivalling the universities, instead of forming a 
bond of union for the graduates of all.” 
“ During the progress of the Bill in Parliament, Mr. Head- 
lam undertook to move certain amendments in committee, 
in which he was not successful ; and, although some amend- 
ments were introduced, the Bill passed in a form not alto- 
gether satisfactory to the College of Physicians. It was, 
however, deemed expedient not to carry the opposition any 
further, for though, by a vigorous effort, the Bill might pos- 
sibly have been thrown out, it was not unlikely that it might 
in that case be followed by one even more objectionable next 
year; and it is, we believe, generally admitted that the 
