When I use a word . . . Medicines regulation—the British Pharmacopoeia

The General Medical CouncilThe main purpose of the Medical Act of 1858, “An Act to regulate the Qualifications of Practitioners in Medicine and Surgery,” was the establishment of the General Medical Council, so that “Persons requiring Medical Aid should be enabled to distinguish qualified from unqualified Practitioners.”1 The full title of the council so established was “The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.”The first 46 sections of the act dealt with various aspects of the constitution and actions of the council and its members and the registration and actions of “legally qualified Medical Practitioners.”Among the final nine sections of the act, the government of the day took the opportunity of including other matters, including the possibility that the Queen might grant new charters:● to the Royal College of Physicians of London, to be renamed the Royal College of Physicians of England;● to the Royal College…
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