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 / by Thomas Chevalier, A. M. A member of the Corporation.

  • 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 / by Thomas Chevalier, A. M. A member of the Corporation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *3 ) fourteenth, Surgery was formally feparated from Phyfic j the priefts were ablblutely forbidden to pratlifc 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 diftinguifhed 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 flatute particularly relates to Surgeons*, concerning whom a betier and more juft opinion feems to have been there entertained, than at Paris. The Italian univerfities 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 ctaim conflitutione fancimus, ut nullus Chirurgicus ad practicam admittatur, nil tefHmoniales literas afFerat Magiitrorum in Medicinal! facilitate legen.- tnun, quod per annum faltera in ea parte Mcdicime ftudtierit, qua* Chirargiae inftruit Facultatem ; et pra?- fertnn anaiouiiam humanurum corporum in Scholis didicerit, et lit in ea parte medicipae perl'efilus, Gne qua ncc inciliones fatiibriter iieii poterum, nec fra&a hac-