English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon.
- John Simon
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: English sanitary institutions : reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations / by Sir John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Chap. V. Tudor Legisla- tion. 82nd of Henry VIII, cc. 40 and 42; regarding the College of Phy- and the Corpora- tion of Barbers and Sur- geons. Subse- quent pas- sages : them. The Act also provided that (except graduates of Oxford and Cambridge) no person should thenceforth be suffered to practise physic in England, unless he had previously been examined by the President and three Elects of the College, and had received from them letters testimonial. Seventeen years later in the reign, namely in 1540, further steps relating to the Medical Profession were taken by the pass- ing of two Acts of Parliament, one concerning Physicians, and the other concerning Surgeons. The former (32nd year, c. 40) was chiefly important as providing that the incorporated Physi- cians should have supervision of the apothecaries' shops in the city of London, and as declaring that, forasmuch as the science of physic doth comprehend include and contain the knowledge of surgery as a special member and part of the same, any of the said company or fellowship of physicians (being able chosen and admitted by the president and fellowship) may practise physic in all and every his members and parts, notwithstanding any enactment made to the contrary: while, in special rela- tion to Surgery, the other of the Acts (eod. c. 42) after reciting that there were then in the city of London two several and distinct companies of surgeons, occupying and exercising the faculty of surgery, one company [the corporation made by Edward the Fourth] called the Barbers of London, and the other company called the Surgeons of London, enacts that the two companies shall be made one, under the name of the Masters or Governors of the Mystery and Commonalty of the Barbers and Surgeons of London.* In accordance with the latter Act, the King in 1540 granted a charter to the new company ; and many who are neither barbers nor surgeons may remember with interest this particular royal act, because of Holbein's masterpiece of painting which commemorates it. In order to simplify future references to the early legal con- stitution of the Medical Profession, as bearing on the constitu- tion which now is, it may be convenient to interpose here, though anticipatively, a mention of some subsequent passages in the history of the just-mentioned Corporations. * In section 3 of the Act it was provided (for fear of infections of disease) that no one person should practise both barbery and surgery, except that barbers might draw teeth.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21077927_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
