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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    ( IS ) , |ffl| our Richard I. before the Chateau de Limofin in 1199? by an arrow that entered his fhoulder*. “ Interea Regem circumftant undique mixtim; “ Apponunt Medici fomenta, sec an tou e Chi rurgi “ Vuinus, ut inde trahant ferrum leviore periclo.” Neverthelefs, after a long and tedious refearch, I have not been able to find that any Surgeon was ftatedly appointed to attend the King’s perfon, before the year 1360, when Richard de Wy, was made Surgeon to Edward lilt. From that time the appointment was regular, though the peifons who held it were frequently foreigners. About this period alfo lived John of Ardern, who pra&ifed at Newark in Nottinghamfhire, and is the firfl mere Surgeon in England whofe writings have come down to us. He was a man of learning for the time in which he lived; and from feveral paffages in his writings, I think it highly probable he had ftudied abroad. This was an advantage which fevf of his cotemporaries here poffeffed ; although there can be little reafon to doubt that many of them came over from France with their patrons the priefls, to fettle in this ifland. But thefe were employed, as has been faid, in fubfervien'ce to the clerical doctors, who took pretty good care that their fervants Ihould not be wifer than themfelves. * Pafquier, p. 86/» t MS* Sloan. 4.581—133.