Observations in defence of a Bill lately brought into Parliament, for erecting the Corporation of Surgeons of London into a College; and for granting and confirming to such College certain rights and privileges: including a sketch of the history of surgery in England / [Thomas Chevalier].

  • Chevalier, Thomas, 1767-1824.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Observations in defence of a Bill lately brought into Parliament, for erecting the Corporation of Surgeons of London into a College; and for granting and confirming to such College certain rights and privileges: including a sketch of the history of surgery in England / [Thomas Chevalier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { 13 ) fourteenth, Surgery was formally feparated from Phyfic; the priefts were abfolutely forbidden to praftife it; and the Univerfity of Paris, in con- fequence, refufed to admit any ftudent into the Faculty of Medicine who did not abjure it. * It is evident that Surgery was diftinguifhed from Phyfic, long before Surgeons were diitinguifhed from Phyficians. After the Mandate of Pope Alexander III. it began to be cultivated with fome degree of attention at the famous fchool of Saler- num, and perhaps at Naples and Montpellier. By one of the ftatutes of the Emperor Frederick II. the founder of the academy at Vienna, the former fchool obtained the power of granting degrees in medicine about the middle of the thirteenth century; and one claufe in that fta.tute particularly relates to Surgeons*, concerning whom a better and 'more juft opinion feems to have been there entertained, than at Paris. The Italian univerftties admitted lay ftudents to equal privileges with the clerical; fome of them became phyficians of note, and the clergy left the performance of Surgical operations entirely * “ Salubri etiam conflitutione fancimus, ut nullus “ Chirurgicus ad pra6ticam admittatur, nifi tefiimoniales “ literas afferat Magiftrorum in Medicinaii facilitate le- “ gentium, quod per annum faltem in ea parte Medicinte “ ifuduerit, quae Chirurgiae inflruit Facultatem; et prae- “ fertirn anatomiam humanorum corporum in Scholis “ didicerit, et fit in ea parte medicinae perfe&us, fine qua “ nec incifiones falubriter fieri poterunt, nec frafta frac» et