Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery.

  • Everitt, Graham.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Doctors and doctors: some curious chapters in medical history and quackery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    he be first approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London, or . . . Dean of St. Paul's for the time being, calling to him . . . four doctors of physic, and for surgery other expert persons in that faculty. Any unqualified person practising as a physician or surgeon was liable for every month he so practised to the penalty therein mentioned. Outside the boundaries of the City, and precincts of seven miles, persons practising as physicians and surgeons were to be examined and approved by the Bishop of the diocese or other persons in the manner therein set forth. This statute really did more harm than good. If there were, as we shall (in a later chapter) see that there were, many quacks and dangerously incompetent persons dabbling in physic and sur- gery, there were, on the other hand, a number of charitable persons of both sexes, skilled in the knowledge of herbs, roots, and waters, who at- tended the sick and afflicted poor, only, as a