Physician
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Physician, one who professes the art of healing.
The necessity of placing under supervision the practitioners of physic and surgery appears early in the statute-book; for by the still unrepealed 3 Hen. 8, c. 11, it is enacted, that no person within London or seven miles thereof, shall practise as a physician or surgeon without examination and licence of the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul's (duly assisted by the faculty); or beyond these limits without licence from the bishop of his diocese or his vicar-general similarly assisted, sav-ing the privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The superintendence of the bishops was taken away by a royal charter dated 23rd September, 1858 (10 Hen. 8), which incorporated the physicians. By 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 5, this charter was confirmed, and a perpetual college of physicians established with a constitution of eight elects, etc. The subsequent history of the college is sufficiently traced in 23 & 24 Vict. c. 66, which provides for the style of the new charters allowed to be granted by the (English) Medical Act, 1858, s. 47. And see Davies v. Makuna, (1885) 29 Ch D 596. The Act of 1858 was amended by the (English) Medical Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 48); by s. 6 of this Act a physician may recover his fees by action unless he is a fellow of a college of physicians prohibited by bye-law from so doing; bye-law 170 of the Royal College of Physicians forbids such recovery. See MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
The necessity of placing under supervision the practitioners of physic and surgery appears early in the statute-book; for by the still unrepealed 3 Hen. 8, c. 11, it is enacted, that no person within London or seven miles thereof, shall practise as a physician or surgeon without examination and licence of the Bishop of London or Dean of St. Paul's (duly assisted by the faculty); or beyond these limits without licence from the bishop of his diocese or his vicar-general similarly assisted, sav-ing the privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The superintendence of the bishops was taken away by a royal charter dated 23rd September, 1858 (10 Hen. 8), which incorporated the physicians. By 14 & 15 Hen. 8, c. 5, this charter was confirmed, and a perpetual college of physicians established with a constitution of eight elects, etc. The subsequent history of the college is sufficiently traced in 23 & 24 Vict. c. 66, which provides for the style of the new charters allowed to be granted by the (English) Medical Act, 1858, s. 47. And see Davies v. Makuna, (1885) 29 Ch D 596. The Act of 1858 was amended by the (English) Medical Act, 1886 (49 & 50 Vict. c. 48); by s. 6 of this Act a physician may recover his fees by action unless he is a fellow of a college of physicians prohibited by bye-law from so doing; bye-law 170 of the Royal College of Physicians forbids such recovery. See MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
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