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.
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![[ 5' ] until 15^1 *, twelve years after the date of the patent itfelf: Dr. Ferdinand de Victoria was a foreign phyfician, and was not incorporated at Oxford until 1520 f, niore than a year after the charter was granted : and Linacre himfelf, who was, indifputably, an honour to the age in which he lived, although admitted a fellow of All Soul's College, in 1484, graduated in Italy, and was incorporated at Oxford upon his re- turn J. It is an acknowledged facl, that the universities of England were incompetent to in- ltru£l him §. Sir John Micklethwaite graduated at Padua in 1638, and, more than 120 years after the col- lege * Impartial Enq. into the Legal Conftit. of the Coll. of Phyf. 1753, p. 91. f Matthias Confpeft. Hift. Medicor. Chronol. § 339. X Wood's Athenae Oxonienf. v. i. p. 20. § An fortunam Linacri miferam ac miferandam putem, eo quod domi non haberet unde difceret; an felicem eum potius praedicem, cui contigit ea foris didicifle, quae poffent & ipfum Patriae, &c Patriam terrarum orbi commendare; cui contigit quicquid Florentia, quicquid Roma literarum aluit (fuit autem turn temporis Italia Graecarum Artium pleniflima) in Aca- demic fuae finum fecum deportare, &c inter fuos au&iora atque uberiora depromere Tranfalpinas eruditionis miracula ? Sir G. Baier's Harveian Oration, 1761, p. 5. Qui, cum domi non habuerit unde difceret, in Italiam, hu- mauitatis etelegantiac tunc temporis domicilium, migravit; ubi cx Politiano facundiam, ex Dcmetrio Graecam linguam, ex Her- molaodidicit philofophiam. Dr. Warren's Oration, 1769, p. 3. E 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441546_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
