Volume 2

On the deaths of some eminent persons of modern times / [Henry Halford].

  • Henry Halford
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the deaths of some eminent persons of modern times / [Henry Halford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If the Cardinal had devoted some of the leisure which he could spare from the duties of his great offices to medical pursuits we should not have been surprised, recollecting that almost all the learning of the land was confined to the Ecclesiastics at that time, and that it was the province of the Bishops in their several dioceses to license medical men to practise physic, before that duty was assigned exclusively to the College of Physicians. The Cardinal died of a broken heart, in fact, though the symptoms which afflicted him in the last days of his life were those of a dysentery. It is impossible to read his secretary’s (Mr. Cavendish) account of his life without being deeply interested in the fate of that ported originally, it should seem by King Henry Vllth’s army when it landed at Milford Haven. The best account of it is given by Dr. Kay, successor of Linacre, as President of this College, and founder of Caius College in Cambridge.
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