A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne].
- William Browne
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![very Jlatute! It names exprefsly common artificers, and other ignorant impoftors, boldly taking upon them great cures, and things of great difficulty. This is a true picture of the quacks, in all ages. But the regular phyficians, were defcrib- ed, diftingui£hed, and appointed examiners of medical qua¬ lifications, in this fame fiatute, as having the requifites there¬ in mentioned, great learning and ripe experience: and have been a learned body, in every age (dj; when there was any fuch thing as learning to be had *. In particular, the inftitution [d] -Sums fuperbiam £>uaefitam mentis. -- Hor. * That our two univerfities were fources of learning and medical fcience, even in the dark age of monkery, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; appears from the Stat. 9. K. H V. which, although not printed in the Statute-look, was enafted according to the following tranfcript, taken from the parliament-rolls, and laid up among our archives. Ex bundello petitronum de a0. 9°. H. 5. in parliamento. jr t Hey and mojl mighty prince noble and worthy lords fpirituelx and temporelx and worfhipfull comunes for fo moche as a man hath thre things to governe that is to fay foule body and worldly goods the which ought and Jhulde ben principaly reweled by thre fciences that ben divinitie ffyk and lawe the foule by di¬ vinitie the body by ffyk worldly goods by lawe y and thofe conynges Jhould be ufed and prattife d principally \ by the moft connyng men in the fame fciences and moft approved in cafes necejfaries to encrefe of vertue long life and gouds of fortune to the worjhip of God and cojnyn profit. But worthi foveraines hit is known to your hey difcretion mcny uncunnyng and unaproved in the afore- faide fcience prattifeth andfpecialy infyfyk fo that in this realme is every man be he never fo lewed take- ing upon him praciyfe y fujfred to ufe it to grete harme and Jlaughtre of many men where if no man prattifed therein but al only connynge men and approvedJujficiently y learned in art filofofye and fifyk as it is kept in othur londes and roialmes ther Jhuld many man that dyeth for defaute of helpe lyve and no man perijh by unconnyng. Wherefore plefeth to your excellent s wyfdomes that ought after your foule have mo entendance to youre body for the caufes abovefaid to ordaine and make in fiatute perpetually to be flraitly y ufed and kept That no man of no manner eft ate degre or condition prattife in fifyk fro this time foiward hot he have long timey ufed the fcoles of fifyk within fome univerfitee and be graduated in the fame that is to fay but he be bachelor or dottour of fifyk having lettres tefiimonialx fufiiceantz of on of thofe degrees in the univerfite in the which he took his degree in undur peyne of long emprifonement and paying xidb to the kingy and that no woman ufe the prattife of fifyk under the fame payne, and that the fherrefifs of every fbire make inquifetion in their tournes if there be any that forfaiteth ayens this fiatuit under a payne reafonable and thenne that they put this Jlatute in execution without onyfavoure undur the fame payne alfo lefl that thay the which ben able to prattife in fifyk ben excludedfro prattife the which be not graduated. Plefeth to your hey prudcncy to fend writtes to all the Jherrejfs of Englond that every p ratty four in fifyk not graduat¬ ed in the fame fcience that wole prattife forth be wythin on of the univerfities of this lend by a certain day, that thay that ben able mowe aftre true and flreyt examination be received to their degree and that thay that be not able to cefe fro the prattife into the time they ben able and approved or for to never more entermete thereof and that herto alfo be y fet a peyne convenient. B 2 dorfs.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31900070_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
