Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    circumstance the barber craft or barber-chirurgeon most probably derived its origin. By these means, in the interval between the twelfch and sixteenth centuries, all external wounds, injuries, and ail- ments were separated from the office of the physician proper; whilst internal diseases, whose existence or removal was less easily detected, remained, during this period, the exclusive province of the priest-physician. The medical statutes of Henry the Eighth's reign throw a very curious light upon the state of medicine and surgery in England during the six- teenth century; and we shall refer to them, not only for that reason, but principally because they have been so curiously misquoted and so trans- parently misunderstood in some of the books in which we find them referred to. The statute of the third year of Henry the Eighth, cap. 11 [1511], shows us the necessity of legislative inter- ference. It states that the science and cunnincf
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