Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the place for the young practitioner. For the next month or two he applied himself assiduously to the duties allotted him, receiving no remuneration beyond a much closer insight into actual clinical work than he could have acquired elsewhere, and so became qualified to take sole charge of the patients when the then phy- sician should resign. But notwithstanding Bright’s election, towards the close of 1584 rumours of Turner’s impending retirement brought a second candidate into the field, the College of Physicians resolving to apply for the physiciancy on behalf of one of its members : “ 1584, Decemb. xix. “ Decretum est his comitiis, ut literae quaedam peti- tioriae in gratiam ac favorem D[r]. Wootton scribantur, ad rectores et magistros Hospitii S. Bartholomew in hanc sententiam ; scilicet, quoniam D[r]. Turner, illius hospitii jam medicus, intra hos paucos dies munus illud sua sponte relicturus est, idcirco rogare nos, ut D[r], Wootton, turn quia vir doctus est, et in medicina bene exercitatus, turn quiaunus est ex nostri Collegii Societate, ad nostram petitionem in dicti Turneri locum subrogetur. ” Accordingly, the following petition was indited : “To the Right Worshipful the Aldermen and Governors of the Hospitall of St. Bartholomew. “ Right worshipfull, “ Understanding that Mr. Dr. Turner is resolved to depart with the Physitian’s roome of the Hospitall of St. Bartholomew, and of this his resolucion hath given warning unto your Wisedoms : We, as well for the charitable care that we have for the better furnishing of your said Hospitall in that behalf, as also for some other good respects, have thought good to co'mend 3