Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    aspire to a degree of Doctor in Physic, which the fame of the place should persuade him to take here, being the Imperial University for Physic of all others in the world, and where Physicians [are expected to] pass a very exact scrutiny and severe test. From thence, our authority recommends him to go on to Bologna, and pass three months at the hospital there. Last of all, our doctor must not neglect to extract something . . . out of the eminentest practitioners at Rome, frequenting the three renown'd hospitals of San Spirito in the Vatican, San Giovanni Laterano on the Mount Celio, and San Giacomo di Augusta in the Valley Martia, besides others whose names are also given. And yet this was the learned gentleman of whom Captain Alexander Radcliffe, following, the example of his predecessor, Earle, wrote, during the seven- teenth century, the following lines, which Dryden, in his well-known contempt and dislike for the
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