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

  • Church, William S., Sir, 1837-
Date:
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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    mantled geules doubled argent. [The crosse forme fiche was the cote of Cadwallader the last King of Britains, in A. Dom. G80.] “ In further Memorie of whome (so long as the Church wherein he lieth buried dooth stand, and tbe monuments therein blessed, from sacrilegious hands) there remainetli fixed in the wall over his grave, a copper plate wherein his said cote armour workemanlie grauen, with the armes of the Physicians College so under it as they are knit unto it. On either side of this latter scutchion are set certeine binding bands and other instruments of Surgerie in their right formes, with their proper use also to be practised upon ech member; be the same head, leg, arme, hand or foot; all workmanlie wrought, and under the same a memoriall graven for wished perpetuitie: Caldwallus jacet hie patriae studiosus alumnus, Chirurgis Chiron, Hippocrates Medicis : Heracles laqueis dum fascia membra reuincit, Galenus priscae laudis et artis amans : Chirurgis stabilem lecturam condidit, illi Praefecit Medicos, quos ea turba colat: Plintheus hie astat laqueus, Carchesius, inde Fascia; quae studii sunt monumenta sui : Felix Chirurgus patronum qui tibi talem Nactus es, et felix qui dolet seger erit. Plintheus. 1. Charchesius. 2. Totum caput cingens. Rhombus. 4. Scamnum Hippocrates. Glossocomium. 6. Quern tibi vinxisti charum dum vita manebat, Te cum Melpomene post tua fata canet. Ric. Fostekus. Laquei Fascia { 3. Machin amenta-^ o.
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