[105]. A writ of certiorari will also be granted on occasion directed to the College. 2 Hawk. 406.
[106]. The unprofessional reader will infer from the rank of the Counsel the importance which was attached to the case; and from their proved ability, that its merits were fully before the Court.
[107]. For which, at greater length, as also for the arguments of the other Judges, see 4 Burr. 2195.
[108]. A Fellowship is not in itself an office. Carth. 478.
[109]. Query of the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury inter alia? Vide ante.
[110]. And in midwifery it is desirable that the practice may be revived.
[111]. A limited license had been granted to one Shepheard to practise upon Madmen, but with a proviso that a physician should also be called. Being summoned to answer a breach of this limitation, he appeared and submitted to the College censure. Goodall 466.
[112]. This prophesy, like many others, was the cause of its own fulfilment, as will be seen in the sequel. Lord Kenyon in Doctor Stanger’s case took occasion to lament that it had been made.
[113]. At the conclusion of all these arguments Lord Mansfield was at great pains to impress upon the College the propriety of enlarging their rules for admission; some alterations consequently were made; but it is more than doubtful whether they have yet satisfied the views of those who would have placed all the colleges of the empire on the same footing as the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in respect of their prior claims to the honours of the College of Physicians.
[114]. For some controversial observations on this case see Doctor Wells’ letter to Lord Kenyon in his published works.