The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his arms bound and when asked by Saladin what he would do if their situations wrere changed said, with many insulting expressions, that he would have himself cut off Saladin’s head. There was no time for Dr Ranulphus Besace to intervene, for Saladin stood up, called for his sword, and with one blow cut off the Christian captive’s head. Another ecclesiastic and physician, was Nicholas Tynchewyke, who lectured at Oxford on medicine and of whom Edward I on October 7, 1306 says to whom, after God, we owe thanks for our recovery from the illness which lately oppressed us (Rymer, Fcedera, II. 1077-8) and who held the living of Reculver. Others like Master William le Provencall, physician to Alianora mother of Edward I, who was given leave to go abroad with her in February 1275 (Rymer n. 44), are not stated to have been in holy orders. M. 2