The principles and practice of medicine. An inaugural lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on October 3rd 1893.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1893
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Credit: The principles and practice of medicine. An inaugural lecture delivered at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on October 3rd 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Lest you should think a poet insufficient evidence I will read you a piece of a matter-of-fact contemporary document—a Bull of Pope Clement V * dated Sept. 8th, 1308, a date five years subsequent to the completion of his ' Lilium Medicinal by Bernard, with whom I commenced. It begins : Clemens Episcopns, servus servorum Dei, dilectis filiis universis magistris facili- tates medicince in Montepessulano Magalonensis Dioeoesis commorantibus salutem et apostolicam benedictionem, and goes on to lay down the course of medical study and to appoint examiners. The can- didates are to read—Galen: De Complexionibus; De Malitia Complexionis Diversas; De Simplici Medi- cina; De Morbo et Accidenti; De Crisi et de Criticis Diebus. Avicenna: De Ingenio Sanitatis. Bazis, Constantine, aud Izac on the same subject. Hippo- crates : Techni, Prognostics, or the Aphorisms and the Begimen of Acute Diseases; and Johanitius and Isaac de Febribus. Medicine was to be learnt by a course of reading and commentating. Such was the method of teaching and of study from the Hebrides to Damascus. In the Isle of Mull physicians of the clan MacBeatha or Beatoun painfully perused Gaelic versions which they had obtained from their teachers, hereditary physicians in Ireland,t O'Hickey, Mac- * ' Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire de la Faculte de Medecine de Montpellier,' p. 45. J. Astruc, Paris, 1767. t ' British Museum Manuscript,' additional, 15,582, &c.
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