Dentistry and the University of London.
Dentistry and the University of London.
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DOI：
10.1017/s0025727300009157
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发表时间：
2005-10
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影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Gelbier, S
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作者：
Gelbier, S
19世纪的一些医生和牙医敏锐地感受到了专业资格的缺乏。1860年，《柳叶刀》（Lancet）强调了一个“避免医疗法案的运作，并使没有受过教育和没有原则的人能够欺骗公众”的计划。它引用了一份日报的广告。T.Vary先生曾在伦敦的托特纳姆法院路的琼斯咖啡馆宣布，“没有医学文凭的医生、药剂师、化学家或牙医，可以通过写信给他，听说一种获得医学文凭的简单方法”。在回答记者的询问时，瓦里告诉《柳叶刀》，他刚从美国来，那里的一个朋友“1857年毕业......获得了所有的荣誉”。然而，后者因为没有钱支付毕业费，“不得不离开美国，没有文凭”，所以要求他还清债务，把文凭带回欧洲。他说：“我已经这样做了，但被拘留的时间比预期的要长，现在发现我的朋友死了。表示他不想失去他代表他的朋友支付的钱，Vary继续说：“幸运的是，在美国很常见，名字的空间是空白的，让毕业生有它填补了一些写作大师适合他的幻想。他建议以23英镑的价格出售文凭和支持文件，他指出，这“就像五年的劳动和1500美元一样好”。同年晚些时候，《柳叶刀》强调，在没有考试或居住的情况下购买欧洲大陆医学博士学位的做法显然是“对公众的欺诈......对职业荣誉和职业品格的破坏令人反感”。它公布了一项提案的细节，该提案被提交给奥迪哈姆的外科医生磅先生，要求他“通过简单的购买”获得学位。随信附上一份印刷的通知：“如果你想成为一名医学博士，在不耽误你的专业工作的情况下，我可以为你从一所享有最高声誉的欧洲大陆大学获得学位，条件比这个国家迄今为止所知的任何大学都要温和。该通知附有一封信亲自给磅博士H A凯撒，医学博士，FRCSI。没有办法知道有多少医生或牙医实际上购买了这种或类似的假文凭的副本。
The lack of professional qualifications was felt keenly by some nineteenth-century medical and dental practitioners. In 1860, the Lancet highlighted a scheme “to avoid the operation of the Medical Act, and to enable uneducated and unprincipled men to defraud the public”. It quoted an advertisement from a daily newspaper. Mr T Vary had announced that “Doctors, Druggists, Chemists, or Dentists, who have no Medical Diploma, can hear of an easy method of obtaining one” by writing to him at Jones's Coffee House in London's Tottenham Court Road. In response to an enquiry, Vary told the Lancet that he had just come from America where a friend “had graduated … in 1857, with all the honours”. However, the latter “had to leave America without his diploma” because of a lack of money for his graduation fees, and so had asked him to pay off the debt and bring back the diploma to Europe. Vary said: “I have done so; but have been detained longer than was anticipated, and now find my friend dead”. Indicating that he did not want to lose the money which he had paid on behalf of his friend, Vary continued: “Fortunately, as is common in America, the space for the name is left blank, to allow the graduate to have it filled up to suit his fancy by some writing master”. He proposed to sell the diploma and supporting papers for £23, which, he pointed out, was “as good as if five years' labour and 1500 dollars had been given to obtain it”. Later in the same year, the Lancet stressed that the practice of buying a Continental degree of MD, without examination or residence, was clearly a “fraud upon the public … repugnant to professional honour and destructive of professional character”. It published details of a proposition sent to Mr Pound, a surgeon in Odiham, to obtain a degree “by simple purchase”. Enclosed was a printed circular: “If you wish to become a M.D. without absenting yourself from your professional duties, I can procure you the degree from a Continental University of the highest reputation, on terms more moderate than any hitherto known in this country”. The circular was accompanied by a letter addressed personally to Pound by a Dr H A Caesar, MD, FRCSI. There is no way of knowing how many doctors or dentists actually bought copies of that or similar false diplomas.
影响因子：
5.7
作者：
Camp PG;Dimich-Ward H;Kennedy SM
通讯作者：
Kennedy SM