The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18th, 1895 / by William Selby Church.

  • Church, William S., Sir, 1837-
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1896
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Credit: The Harveian oration : delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18th, 1895 / by William Selby Church. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IIolinshed, Til, 1369. Qn. Eliz., a.d. 1584. “In this yeare, and the Twentith daie of Maie departed out of this life that famous father of Physicke and Surgerie, the English Hippocrates and Galen, I mean doctor Caldwell, and was buried on the sixt of June immediately following at St. Benets Church by Paules wbarfe, at the upper end of the chancell : his bodie was verie solemnelie accompanied to the Church with a traine of learned and grave doctors, besides others of that facultie, the heralds of armes doing him such honour at his funerall as to him of dutie apperteined. Of this mans rare loue to his Countrie hath beene spoken before, where mention is made [p. 1349] of the institution of a Surgerie Lecture perpetuallie to be continued for the common benefit of London, and consequently of all England: the like whereof is not established nor used in anie universitie of christendome (Bononie and Padua excepted) and therefore the more to be esteemed. Indeed the like Institution was in toward- nesse, whiles Francis the French of that name the first lined : but when he died, as the Court that he kept in his time was counted a Universitie, but after hisdeth made an exchange thereof with another name: so likewise discontinued or rather utterlie brake off that purposed institution of a surgerie lecture at Paris ; so that in this point London hath a prerogative excelling the Universities. “ This Dr. Caldwell in his last will and Testament gave manie great legacies to a great number of his poorest kinsfolks, as also unto others nothing allied to him. He gave in his lifetime two hundred Pounds to be lent gratis for ever to the Clothiers in Burton, whereby clothing might be mainteined, the poore artificers set on worke, and the poore Citizens in Lichfield also benefited; the corporation of the said Towne being bound for the receiving and delivering thereof euerie five yeares to the yoongcst and poorest occupiers. He gave great summes of monie to the poore
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