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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mAthode. by errata led to int me pelure, apon A 1 2 3 32X 1 2 3 4 5 6 tff MEDICAL/ NTZ-MO« Tke Petition of the und^Mgned To the Honorable the Commons House of Asi Most RESPEcrpuLLY Sheweth, — ' That several different and even conflicting systems of Medical Practic many thousands of warm friends, conscientious advocates, and unfiinchin public; while, at the same time, the law regulating the study and practic^^ great injury and oppression of a^l ol]|ers, driving many cf themfrt^'llhe willingly devote their tinc^e and atteiiion to its investigation arid^dil-ejo number, and very difficuff of access, to the great grief, and serious detrii Medical assistance, it being impossible to induce them to surrender thei directly opposed to the true philosophy of health. Further, that this conflict of opinions and by stems cannot be expected imperfect and slowly progressive state; during the v/hole of which peri practice, hfowever favored by class Icg^islati^n, to meet the wants, and rea*«)m competilion between the contending systems, holding all their practitionerj in the same penal liabilities. ^ ^ „ Your Petitioners earnestly pray your Honoral.i.^ Hou^e, to enact a la AN ACT ,j restore to the ptople of Whereas the laws now In force in ITppci Canada for regulating die seems to be nearly as incongruous to deny the right of private judgment" Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the L«gisji ' and assembled bv virtue of and unde;' the authority of an Act passed iiM Act to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Ll wer Canada, and tor th^ 1. That from and after the passing of ibis Act, the statute passed in any person from recovering by suit or action, any debt oi demand arisi in attending the sick, together with ail other laws, or paits of laws iinpoi hereby repealed, •2, No person shall be liable to a criminal proscoUion, or to indictment 3. Any person licensed or unlicensed, who shall practice Physic or Su having cognizance thereof be convicted ot grossly ignorant treatment, or i^uilt/ of a misdemeanour, and liable to a fine or noY. less than five pou a term not less than one mouth, nor m6re than twelre months. Should your Honorable House, however, deem the people of thia Pro your Petitioners pray, that you will at least remove all legal penalties /S^d disabilities certificate of qualification to practice from a regularly organized Board 4^iihoirt)wn Me< Mm of which h ents, ami ediciTie ^, and pr( f : thus xei) their fait trust of i ite, so ;^«H11 eviTl' ti^ectatit ^ respo to the 1 {« the I Medic 1 as in il, and entoft mofCf r of hi practi lues of casing P shall pi actice, or exceedini unqualifiec NAM£S OF P£TIT10NERS. I i /"■".'.i ■/' -f } i i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i:-MO||rqpoLY petition. fpgned JF^0mold€rs and others of Upper Canada. 3f Asseiiifc)jw?^t^ Tioyiace pf Canada, in Parliaoient assembled, ;a] Practic uuliinchin nd practic^^ d',dll*bJo :}ixs detri ender the F,'xpected 1 iic.h peril . and rea*0 )ractitioner^ inact a la le of ting tiie udgment e L«gis| Lss(;d 1 I for th^ issod in nd arisiiii iws impoj " ^1 having its owii peculiar merits, have^^lroady sacceeded in obtaining ents, among the most respectable and intelligent portions of the Canadian edicme in this Province, recognizes only one class of practitioners to th« f^i and preventing others from enteriiig the practice, who would otherwi)|e, !^|^; thus Tendering qualified practitioners of the ' proscribed sysitems, few iib. - ^'^ ^^eiv faithful adherents j many of whom are thus legally deprived of all trust of iite, to the influence of a system of Cure, believed by theml<^l[|e j^te, so long as the Science of Medicini? continues in its present very eviTl'^nily be absolutely impossible, for' any one system of Medical delectations of the whole community. To allow, therefore, a Aili and free responsible for the success of their respective courses of treatment, and to the following during your present Session ; — U the advtintages of Medical Toleration. > Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, require amendment, and whereas, it \ as in religious controversies: Be it therefji^re enacted by the CXueen's 5il, and of the Legislative Assembly of the Prc^rince of Canada, constituted en; of the nEitet(|^ngdomj4*~f'^reax]J^^^4^^ an It of Canada, ana u is ncreby enacted byfhe authority bt th^ salne : r of his late Majesty George the Fourth, chap. 3, so far as it prohibits 3 practice of Physic or Surgery or a compensation for services rendered lues of any kind on unlicensr;d Medical Practitioners, ihall be and are idictment JUP^QTising Physic and Surgery without license, but sic or' Suj^Mypr shall prescribe medicines oi specifics for the sjck, and shall in any court tment, or flrajtattice, or of immoral conduct in relation to such practice, shall be deemed ive pound^pnr exceeding two hundred pounds; m imprisonment in the County Jail for fthis Pro^^de uiiquaiified to exercise the right of private judgment in medical matters, penalties ^^d disabilities, from all Bi-tanic and other Practitioners holding a diploma or d Board ilpihoir t)wn Medical sect. |!lu of which is most respectfully submitted by your Memorialists. ^ i I FLACK OF RESID£NCE. *>■» !«. . ■T*'**,, X-' ■t^i THE UNFETTERED t3 A To Oatiadian 42#^oii ,* s> V.«^,*V^„rt ySrfiV--*- ' War are Physicians and Imwyers, alvne. allcwed to enjoy monopoly J^vileges ^ Miniftter, is oblij^ed to compete with the^whoie world in liamg to honor «l opulent exclufrive privilege o£ duping them i^' the monopolist's pxtrii charge, for pl^cting h: spur of untrammelled campv_iltion — the influences of which, have secured th«i uniforwfc professions, and rendered them truly subservient to the public weal — makin^]iem, the and Law, grown unwieldy, infirm and supercilious, through the age of thd| respecti anceriainty of their slow, toilsome, expen.sivV ^iK Ii I S T ibcrs of SI pages each, at the following term-j, reckoning from the on of Three Months, id before the expiration of Six Mirnths. 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