An outline of the history of pharmacy in Ireland / by William D. Moore.

  • Moore, William Daniel, 1813-1871.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An outline of the history of pharmacy in Ireland / by William D. Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The surgeons were incorporated with the corporation by Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 42. It is doubtful whether the Dublin barbers received from Henry VI. the same privileges, such as exemption from juries, as their London brethren did from his successor; but this is a point which may, perhaps, with a few others, be at some fu- ture time cleared up by the discovery of the charter, or a copy of it. The charter of Queen Elizabeth, having recited that of Henry, proceeds: “And we, having maturely considered how useful and necessary it would be for preserving the health of the human body, that there were more persons skilled in the art of chirurgery within the city of Dublin (sickness and infir- mities committing vast havock),” &c.; “ and because there are now two distinct societies practising the said art and faculty in our city aforesaid, viz., one of barbers and the other of chirur- geons, which said society of chirurgeons is not as yet consti- tuted nor incorporated into any body politick; and it being necessary to blend, joyn, and reduce the said distinct and se- parate societies of barbers and chirurgeons into one body, that in one close, aggregate, and connected fellowship the art and science of chirurgery may flourish as well in theory as in prac- tice ; and as such union would greatly conduce to, and be a means of perfectly learning and exercising the art aforesaid, and assisting both themselves and their present and future ap- prentices,” &c., the charter then goes on to incorporate certain chirurgeons by the name of the Guild of St. Mary Magdalene, and subsequently, at the petition of this society of chirurgeons, and of the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of Barbers, amalgamates the two into one body corporate, by the title of the “ Master, Wardens, and Fraternity of Barbers and Chi- rurgeons of the Guild of St. Mary Magdalene, within our City of Dublin.” It is also granted to the guild that no one within the city and suburbs of Dublin, and franchises thereof, shall exercise any of the arts of chirurgeons or barbers, unless ad-