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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    in England throughout the Middle Ages were in contact with the learning of their time. Their position was something like that of a medical fellow in a college here in the period when such fellowships were given to men who had studied or would study medicine. They spent their days in conversational and social relations with men occupied with other parts of learning. The illustrious originator of this lectureship first brought physicians together in England by the foundation in London of the College of Physicians. The College was constituted by Letters Patent dated September 23, 1518, the tenth year of King Henry VIII. The document is preserved in the College. It states that the king was moved to follow the example of several cities in Italy to found a College in London of learned and grave men