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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    For by the same above the rest, Ye shall greate fame deserve ; The life of man from many streightea, To save and well preserve. Withoute the knowlege of which arte, Thou canste not chose but erre; In all that thou shalte goe aboute, Thy knowledge to preferre. As if ye cutte or cauterise, Or use phlebotomye; Ye can not but erre in the same, Without auatomye. He is no true chirurgien, That can not shewe by arte, The nature of everye member Eche from other aparte. For in that noble handyworke, There doth nothing excell, The knowledge of anatomye, If it be learned well. Endeavoiire therefore by all means. The same to knowe and conne, For when thou hast it perfectly, Thine arte is halflye wonne. Although incorporated with the brethren of the mystery, the surgeons, in no long time, began to show that they were more than anxious to be distinguished from their associates. It seems, in-