The Gresham lecture on the Gresham professors of physic : delivered at Gresham College on March 2nd, 1908 / by F M. Sandwith, M.D.Durh., F.R.C.P. Lond, Gresham professor of physic.

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[1908?]
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Credit: The Gresham lecture on the Gresham professors of physic : delivered at Gresham College on March 2nd, 1908 / by F M. Sandwith, M.D.Durh., F.R.C.P. Lond, Gresham professor of physic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    age of 76 years, having been a voluminous writer all his life. His contributions to the Transactions of the Royal Society, of which he was a Fellow, extend from the thirty-second to the sixty-second volume. Thomas Healde (1771-1789) was a Doctor of Medicine of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and physician at the London Hospital. He was a Fellow and Censor of the College of Physicians and seems to have delivered all pos¬ sible lectures there—Gulstonian, Harveian, Croonian, and Lumleian. He died in 1789 in very reduced circumstances, leaving his widow and family in the greatest destitution. The College granted his widow a special bounty of £100 and helped to start her as midwife. He was the first of the Gresham professors of physic who was allowed to be married. Christopher Stanger (1789-1834) began his medical educa¬ tion by an apprenticeship to a surgeon at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, after which he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He then spent four years in visiting the more celebrated medical schools on the con¬ tinent, Paris, Montpellier, Vienna, Gottingen, and Leyden. On settling in London he became a Licentiate of the College of Physicians, Gresham Professor of Physic, and physician of the Foundling Hospital. He retained his professorship until his death at the age of 75 years. Munk says that he was a person of extensive attainments and great energy of character, and he obtained much notoriety in his day in consequence of his contest with the College of Physicians, for he maintained that it was the right of every well- educated London physician of fair character and mature age to be admitted a Fellow of that corporation, if found competent. The case was argued in the Law Courts for three days in 1797, but his petition was unanimously rejected. The Gresham professors have occupied the chair of Physic, since its foundation, for an average period of more than 20 years each, while two of them, Pemberton and Stanger, each held their post for more than double that time. Henry Herbert Southey (1834-1865) was the brother of Robert Southey, the poet-laureate. He began the study of medicine under a surgeon at Norwich, and at the age of 20 proceeded to Edinburgh where he acquired an unusual facility in the use of Latin, which he wrote and spoke fluently. This accomplishment was fully valued at Edinburgh and gave him a reputation which
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