Volume 1

A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon].

  • Dennis De Coetlogon
Date:
1736
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Credit: A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Art, and wanted no fuch Formalities $ but received the univerfal Voice with divine Ho¬ nours, &c. The Word Doffor^ among# the Romans themfelves, was no otherwife known or underftood, than as a Teacher of their Language ; that is, in more plain JSnglijh, a School-mafter; Me4icus being the only Name known for a Phyjician, till after the Deftrudtion of the Roman Empire. ’Twas then the Bifliops of Rome, the Pa-* pal Authority, begun more particularly to fhew it felf, by the great Conceflions given from Charlemain, to Leo the Third, in the eighth Century; Hill increafed by fucceeding Emperors and Princes. ’Twas then the See of Rome fo advanced their vaft Authority, and fuch large Pretentions 5 particularly in every Thing which had the lead: Regard to Letters. Schools in common Ufe in the Ro¬ man Time, for the Teaching of the Roman Language, fo neceflary in thofe Countries they had fubje&ed (for the better Under- Handing of their Laws, &c.) were, by the forefaid Authority, brought into a prefcribed Method, and thus turned into Seminaries, Colleges, and Univerlities, where the Meta- phyficks, and Philofophy of thofe Times were taught (viz. the Arijlotelian) or fome Cobweb Chimerical Notions, the Product of puzzling unexperienced Brains (without cul¬ tivating and judging from natural Experi¬ ments) thus idly prefuming to explain by hard
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