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Page 12 - ... that no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise or occupy as a physician or surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the bishop of London, or by the dean of St. Paul's for the time being, calling to him or them, four doctors of physic, and for surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Page 12 - That no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London, or by the Dean of St. Paul's, for the time being, calling to him or them four Doctors of Physic, and for Surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Page 187 - ... play was The Spanish Friar, and many members of the Union parliament were present in the house. Theatrical amusements appear to have been continued at the Tennis Court in the year 1710, if we are to place any reliance upon the following anecdote : When Mrs Siddons came to Edinburgh in 1784, the late Mr Alexander Campbell, author of the History of Scottish Poetry, asked Miss Pitcairn, daughter of Dr Pitcairn, to accompany him to one of the representations. The old lady refused, saying, with coquettish...
Page 20 - Professor of Law in the University of Aberdeen. The duties of the Doctor or Professor of Medicine (Mediciner), originally intended to embrace instruction in all the branches of Medical Education, were in 1839 restricted to the teaching of Chemistry. In its original form, this Chair constitutes the most ancient foundation for instruction in Medicine in Great Britain.
Page 3 - William Harvey. A History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood : with a Portrait of Harvey after Faithorne.
Page 27 - to wait on these poor for nothing, and bury them after dissection at our own charges, which now the town does; yet there is great opposition by the chief surgeons, who neither eat hay nor suffer the oxen to eat it. I do propose, if this be granted, to make better improvements in anatomy than have been made at Leyden these thirty years; for I think most or all anatomists have neglected or not known what was most useful for a physician.
Page 186 - Pitcairn, conntess of Kellie, his daughter, died 7th June 1770 ; and Lady Ann Erskine, his last surviving grandchild, one of the best of women, died 18th March 1803. Ecce mathematicum, vatem, medicumque, sophumque, Pitcarnum magnum, haec urnula parva tenet.
Page 80 - Majesty doth therefore strictly require, charge, and Command all and singular Apothecaries and others, whose Business it is to compound Medicines or Distil Oils or Waters, or make other Extracts within any part of...
Page 303 - Chemistry1 in the College of Edinburgh ; with full power to all of them to profess and teach Medicine in all its branches — to examine candidates, and to do every other thing requisite and necessary to the graduation of doctors of medicine.