The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles : The Fitzpatrick lectures for 1905-6 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / Norman Moore.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles : The Fitzpatrick lectures for 1905-6 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The first of these lectures treats of Medical Study in London during the Middle Ages, and of John Mirfeld, a physician, who lived in London in the reign of Eichard IL The second lecture treats of the reading and general attainments of physicians from the founda- tion of our College, in 1518, to the beginning of the eighteenth century. I have described, as an example of what the course of education and the learning of a physician were at the end of this period, the studies and attainments of Dr. Edward Browne, who lived from 1644 to 1708, and was physician to St. Bar- tholomew's Hospital. In the third and fourth lectures I have tried to show how that part of medicine which consists in the precise observation of patients grew up in England, Scotland, and Ireland; and I have particu- larly considered the effect of the works of Mayerne, Glisson, and Sydenham upon this study in England, and the influence of Boerhaave upon it in Scotland and Ireland. In the Appendix I have printed from the manuscript in Mayerne's hand in the British Museum his notes on the health of James I, and the report on Queen Henrietta Maria which he drew up when she thought of going abroad in 1641.