A general view of the establishment of physic as a science in England, by the incorporation of the College of Physicians, London : together with an inquiry into the nature of that incorporation : in which it is demonstrated, that the exclusion of all physicians, except the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, from the corporate privileges of the College, is founded in usurpation, being contrary to the letter and spirit of its charter / by Samuel Ferris, M.D. F.S.A. &c.
- Samuel Ferris
- Date:
- 1795
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A general view of the establishment of physic as a science in England, by the incorporation of the College of Physicians, London : together with an inquiry into the nature of that incorporation : in which it is demonstrated, that the exclusion of all physicians, except the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, from the corporate privileges of the College, is founded in usurpation, being contrary to the letter and spirit of its charter / by Samuel Ferris, M.D. F.S.A. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
26/196 page 2
![[ 4 ] their attention infinitely lefs than either divinity or law. There were not many of our countrymen, who had arrived at any confiderable eminence as phy- ficians, prior to the reign of Henry VIII. It is commonly fuppofed that the firft Englifh phyfi- cian, of fufficient character to be employed at court, was John of Gaddefden, who was called to attend the fon of Edward I. or II. ill of the fmall-pox. But Matthew Paris has mentioned a Nicholas de Ferneham, as prieft and phyfician to Henry III. and to his Queen, in 1241*; and we are informed by Pits, that he was a phyfician en- dowed with all the learning of his time, and that he was retained at court with a confiderable fa- lary|\ There are others noticed as learned phy- ficians about the fame period J. I cannot find, however, any exception, but that of Nicholas de Ferneham, to the affertion of Dr. Freind, that, prior * Ipfum igitur quafi expertum, & fcientia multipliciter & moribus commendabilibus infignitum, peritorum confilio Rex & Retina ad fuarum vocavemnt animarum & corporum cuftodiam & confdium familiare, &c. Matt. Paris Hi/l. Aiigl. f De illuftribus Angliae Scnptonbus, p. 312, 313; (called by Pits, N. Ferveham). X Richardus Anglicus, author of feveral medical works.— John Giles.—Hugh of Evefliam.—Gilbertus Anglicus, author of a Compendium of Phyfic, the earlieft remaining writing on the practice of phyfic.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441546_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
