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

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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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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    of physic and surgery (to the perfect knowledge ■whereof be requisite great learning and ripe ex- perience) were [then] daily . . . exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons, of whom the greater part had no manner of insight in the same, nor in any other kind of learning; some also cai \con\ no letters on the book, so far forth that .common artificers, as smiths, weavers, and women, . . . accustomably take upon them great cures, and things of great difficulty, in which they jpartly use sorcery and witclicraft, partly apply such medicines unto the diseases as be very noious \noxious\ and nothing meet, therefore, to ... the great injury of the faculty, and the grievous hurt, . . . and de- struction of many of the king's liege people, most especially of them that cannot discern the un- cunning from the cunning. To cure which state of things it was provided that no person in the City of London or within syeven miles thereof should practise as a physician or surgeon, except
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