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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    Thomas Byng, Master of Clare Hall, William Lewyn, LL.D., Timothy Bright, and Edmund Downing, whose signatures are appended to a note recording the formal handing over to Chaderton. Bright's signature repro- duced on the cover is from a photograph taken by kind permission of the Governing Body of the College, in whose possession the original document now is.1 The first intimation we have of Bright’s being actually in London is by way of an entry in the register of St. Bartholomew-the-Less, the church within the hospital, which records that on February 9, 1585 [1i.e., 1586], was baptized “ Paule Brighte the sonne of Tymothie Brighte, doctor of phisicke.” Paul Bright lived only one short month after his baptism, and was buried in the hospital church on March 10. Only a few days after this event we get a glimpse of the physician at work. An entry in the minute-book of the hospital, dated March 26, 1586, exhibits him in the role of arbiter between apothecary and surgeons, and serves to illus- trate the varied nature of his duties : “ This day complaint hath bene made by th[e] apothe- cary of this house, that he is charged wth diurs ointe- mentes, pulteses & plasters for the poore wch he ought not to doe, and further he alleadgeth, that the same belongeth to the surgions to provide and not the pothecarye, wch complaint being hard by this court the gournors ime- diately caused mr Bright, the phisicon to this house to deliuer his opinion therin wch of them ought to finde the ointemente plasters, & pulteses for the poore mr Bright after the hering of the cause deliuereth his opinion that 1 Cf. Sloane MS. 1739, printed in Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (1852), vol. iii., p. 523.