Doctors and doctors : some curious chapters in medical history and quackery / By Graham Everitt.
- Everitt, Graham.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![discover events depending on these astral influences; and hence it came to pass that, among the acquire- ments of the physicians of the time of Elizabeth and her successor, a knowledge of astrology was deemed absolutely necessary. Medicus sine cceli peritid nihil est was the dogma of the schools. In Goodall's History of the Royal College of Physicians, we find, at the examination of a candidate of James I.'s reign, the following learned question and equally learned answer:— Being asked in astrology what house he looked into to know [the nature of] a disease, or the event of it, and how the Lord ascendant should stand thereto ? he answereth, he looks to the sixth house; which being disproved, he saith, he under- stands nothing therein but what he hath out of Caliman; and being asked what books he hath read in the art, he hath [read] none but Caliman. The astrological acquirements or pretensions of the physician of his time are referred to by](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21506346_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
