ever so slight, the apothecary will be sure to prescribe largely enough; and should he chance to mistake, then that distemper, which, by the discreet advice of a physician, might, by one proper medicine, have been eradicated at the beginning, runs out into great length, to the extreme hazard and great expense of the patient.
But, after hearing counsel on this writ of error, it was Ordered and Adjudged, that the judgment given in the Queen's Bench, for the President and College, or Commonalty of the faculty of Physic, London, against the said Wm. Rose, should be reversed.
(From 1 Brown Par. Ca. p. 78.)
The King against the President and
College of Physicians.
(From 7 Term Rep. p. 282)
This was a rule calling on the president and College or commonalty of physic in London to shew cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding them to examine C. Stanger, M.D. as to his qualification and fitness to be admitted into the said Corporation as a member or fellow thereof.
Doctor Stanger, after referring to the above statutes (3 Hen. 8: 14 & 15 Hen. 8) and Charter, stated in his affidavit that in 1783 he took a degree of doctor of physic at Edinburgh after a residence there for three years, and after having studied physic there and at other places for many years; that afterwards he went abroad to France, Italy, and Germany, and studied physic there for several years more. That in 1789 he obtained a licence from the college of physicians here in the usual way to practise in London and within seven miles thereof, and that he has
