1743 | order regulating the practice of medicine | FRENCH

This record from January 19, 1743 includes an order that prohibits anyone from practicing medicine, surgery, or mid wifery with having been examined and approved by the King’s Physicians and Surgeons and without having been vested with certificates. According to the WPA abstract included here, the record describes the deaths "of a man who died of wounds through ignorance of the one who dressed them as well as several women who died in childbirth through the ignorance of mid-wives in attendance" and explains that an earlier order from July 1723 oriented toward preventing such deaths has not been effective.