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| | Organisation of the Royal College of Physicians Commissioners for Madhouses 1774-1827 |
 | | At the time of the Physician Commission, Royal College of Physicians fellows were drawn, almost exclusively, from Oxford or Cambridge graduates, which secured that they were members of the established church, that they had received the social education of the collegiate life of Oxford or Cambridge: that they were "gentlemen". |
 | | Royal College of Physicians funds were risked in legal actions, its reputation if it failed to enforce the Act. |
 | | Foulkes, A Mrs Foulkes, of Ivy Lane, Hoxton, was summoned by the Treasurer of the Royal College of Physicians (Dr Budd), for keeping in her house more than one lunatic, she not having a licence from the Commissioners by 14 Geo.3,Cap.49. |
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