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A41429	The Royal College of Physicians of London, founded and established by law as appears by letters patents, acts of Parliament, adjudged cases, &c. : and An historical account of the College's proceedings against empiricks and unlicensed practisers, in every princes reign from their first incorporation to the murther of the royal martyr, King Charles the First / by Charles Goodall ...	Goodall, Charles, 1642-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing G1091; ESTC R8914	319,602	530

of so weighty a profession who hath nothing more in him to grace and commend himself thereunto but onlie such untrue informations as have been delivered to your Lordship to the great abuse of your Honor in that behalf And so beseeching your good Lordship to think well of us and to vouchesalf us an honorable and mild construction of these our dooings who are otherwise most willing in all things els that are in our powre to be at your Honor's commaundement We most humblie take our leave From our College this 2 of Iuly 1593. After this he procured Letters to be wrote in favour of him by the Earl of Essex and another noble Peer of the Kingdom but notwithstanding it was resovled by the whole Society that he should not be licensed to practise Physick He was therefore again cited to appear before the College and fined 5 l. for practising Physick which sum he promised to pay the Treasurer of the College within one month After this he was punished 3 l. upon the same account and afterwards 10 l. in that he had practised without licence from the College as likewise without Art or Judgment for which sum he was to be committed to prison untill he had made due payment thereof Iohn Noe a Tallow-chandler appearing before the College and confessing that he had practised Physick for 3 years he was committed to prison and fined 10 l. Robert Tanner appeared before the College and brought along with him the Archbishop of Canterbury's licence in justification of his practice but being found by the President and Censors a very ignorant and illiterate person he was interdicted practice for the future Iohn Lumkin a Surgeon being summoned before the College he confessed his practising of Physick in Dropsies Gout Rheumatisms and other diseases and his prescribing of purging remedies diet-drinks c. He was afterwards charged for mala praxis upon several Patients as his dropping of Oil of Sulphur into a Patient's eyes from whence an inflammation ensued and other ill accidents which endangered a total blindness His prescribing Stupefactive Pills to a Citizen troubled with an Ischury by which he fell into a total suppression of Urine and made not one drop of water for ten days but died most miserably on the 11th which being proved before the President and Censors he was forthwith committed to prison propter malam praxin immodestos mores and fined 20 l. About a twelvemonth after he was committed a second time to prison for offences of the like nature but then procured a Letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury by the interest of the Dean of Rochester his great friend and Patron for the procuring his freedom But when the Archbishop understood by the President and Censors how insolently he had behaved himself and slighted the College's authority he would intercede no further for him About 5 days after a fresh application was made to the College in his behalf upon which they consented to his enlargement conditionally that he gave a bond of 40 l. that he would not practise for the future Edward Owen a Surgeon and bold practiser in Physick was complained of by Ioan Apseley in that he had undertaken her cure for 40 s. of which he had received 10 s. in hand and had given her a diet-drink purging medicines with Mercury by which her gums were ulcerated and other medicines without any advantage He was punished by the Censors 40 s. After this he was summoned a second time for practising Physick and offered that he should either give a bond of 40 l. that he would not practise for the future or else pay presently 40 s. to the College and if after he practised it should be at his peril If he refused what the Censors now profer'd he was forthwith to be committed to prison But to prevent that he promised the payment of the Fine imposed to the President within a few days Not long after one Sharpe a servant to the Queen made great complaint to the College against Owen and desired their Letters testimonial of his illegal and illiterate practice which were granted in the following form Be it knowen to all men by these presents that one Edward Owen of Surrey a kind of Surgeon as himself affirmeth hath oftentimes been convented in our College of Physitions of London for his bad and unlawfull practice in Physick and whereas we have found him not onely utterly ignorant in the same but moreover we do certainly knowe the great daungers that many of her Majesties Subjects have been brought unto thorough his ignorance and lewd dealing therein as well by the just probation of others as also by his owne confession as appeereth in our College Books of Records and yeerly examynations and for that it appertayneth unto us of the said College by vertue of our privileges graunted by her Majesties Predecessors and Act of Parliament not only to have a care to seek out but also to punish such lewde Impostors and abusers of her Majesties good and true Subjects In regard therefore of our dueties therein we have not only from time to time as we coold come by the said Owen punished him partly by imprisonment partly otherwise for his offences in that behalf but also have utterly forbidden him to deale in the practice and exercise of Physick as he will answer it at his perill according to the true intent and meaning of the Lawes of the Realme provided in that behalf for all such Intruders and Malefactors Notwithstanding several fresh complaints were made against him ob malam praxin as his prescribing purging Physick which occasioned superpurgation and the Patient's death a Mercurial fume which procured lameness in a second Patient and death in a third For which evil and illegal practice he was committed to prison and fined 10 l. which sum he paid to the College and readily discharged both Serjeants and Beadles fees One Harman a foreigner was complained of to the Censors for practising of Physick and taking money beforehand in promise of cure upon appearance he was interdicted practice and ordered to return half the money received In the 33th of the Queen's Reign One Salthowse an Apothecary having prescribed Physick to one Robert Cade he fell into a superpurgation and died within 7 days wherefore he was adjudged by the Censors to be forthwith committed to prison and fined 10 l. Roger Powel a very eminent and famous Impostor was cited to appear before the College for that he had hanged up a table in several parts of the town wherein he boasted of his great cures and long experience being examined he confessed himself illiterate but withall affirmed that he had great and eminent experience in Physick that he had cured very many of dangerous diseases and had long practised in London He had Letters from the Queen which gave an account of his poverty and fortunate success in Physick The College notwithstanding passed the following sentence upon him that he should be committed to

confessed that she had given him Physick but said it was innocent but the matter of fact was so notorious and the event so fatal that she was forthwith committed to Prison and fined 5 l. Dr. Saul being made one of the Queen's Physicians and yet an illiterate and ignorant person in his profession the College ordered the following Letter to be presented to the Right Honourable the Lord Sidney RIght Honorable and our very good Lord The great care that your good Lordship hath for the preservation of her Majestie 's health as it is right well knowen to others so hath it been fully signified unto us by the speech of Dr. Browne Physition to his most excellent Majesty In regard whereof we perceive by him it is your pleasure that your Lordship might be rightly and thoroughly enfourmed of the true sufficiency of one Saul who is entertained into her Majestie 's service a matter of noe small moment touching her Majestie 's health and safety Wherein we are thus much to say in respect of our bounden duty and upon our credits That this said Saul in the year 1591. made his appearance at our College upon one of our solemne meeting daies there to be examined for his skill and sufficiency in Physick and there being orderly opposed in the Latine tongue according to our custome and as we are bound to do stood mute and answered not one woord ether for that he woold not or coold not understand us Then being demanded in English what part of Galen or other good Authors he had read He answered that he had read Galen all over Then being required to name some one book or other of the said Author that he said he had read to the end he might have been examined with all favour in that book which he was best acquainted with He coold not so much as name any one book of his And for that he then shewed us certain Letters testimonial of his Doctorship at the University of Leyden gotten by what corrupt and indirect means we know not we requested him to impart those questions unto us wherein he answered when he proceeded Doctor But herein also he refused to name any one of them unto us Whereupon his ignoraunce so manifestly appeared unto us as we coold do no lesse upon our Oathes then to forbid him from practice at that time and thereupon immediately wrote our Letters to one Heurnius Doctor of the Chair there sharply reprehending him for committing such an error and for suffering such grosse abuses to the great discredit of themselves and their University who promised the like fault should never be committed again And from that time till now of late we never heard more of this Saul and doe not a little marveile how he cometh by this credit in Physick unlesse either by infusion learning hath been powered into him or els by some extraordinary means he hath of late obtained a special gift of healing And thus having most faithfully discharged our dutie to your good Lordship not with any malitious mind to the party but in regard of our loyall fidelitie to her Majestie we most humbly take our leave About the Second year of King Iames his Reign a Copy of the Surgeons Letters Patents which they had procured from the King's Majesty for enlarging their Privileges was read to the College which being found long and full of Law subtilties It was ordered that some of the Fellows should examine and compare their Old Charter with their New which being done and reported to the College the President with two of the Elects waited upon the Lord Cranbourne to acquaint him what great inconveniences and mischiefs would ensue not onely as to the privileges of the College of Physicians but likewise as to the publick good of the whole kingdom in case their Letters Patents were passed Notwithstanding the Surgeons presented a Petition in Parliament to procure an authority for prescribing inward as well as outward medicines in Wounds Ulcers and French Pox a Copy of which is the following To the Honourable Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons in his Majestie 's high Court of Parliament assembled The humble Petition of the Masters or Governors of the Mystery and Commonalty of Barbers and Surgeons of London Most humbly shewing THat whereas it hath pleased his Majestie to grant unto the College of Physicians of London a Patent under his Majestie 's great Seal of England and thereby hath given them not onely many large privileges and other grants but also power to call and convent before them in London and 7 miles compasse and to examine upon Oath the servant or attendant upon any person or persons that shall either give or take Physick and in fine to imprison at their pleasure all such persons as doe or shall administer any internall remedy whatsoever By reason whereof they doe not onely take unto themselves the Arts of the Physician Chirurgion and Apothecary but doe likewise goe about to restraine your Petitioners from using unto their grieved and wounded Patients such wound-drinks Potions and other inward remedies as they by their long practice study and tried experience have found most necessary for the recovery of their diseased Patients as well in the City of London as in all his Majestie 's services both by Sea and Land in preserving both their lives and limbs and without which many times they cannot performe their Cures nor give such speedy ease and remedy to the grieved Patients as otherwise they may and can doe which Patent is very prejudicial not onely to your Petitioners but to all his Majestie 's subjects who shall have occasion to use their help and will prove a great and heavy burthen to the Common-wealth in general when for every hurt apperteyning to the Chirurgions cure the Patient must be forced to entertain a Surgeon a Physician and an Apothecary The humble Suite of your Petitioners is that this honourable House will be pleased to take the same Patent into your grave considerations and the unlawfull privileges and hurtfull power to them given to set Fines to take Recognizances inflict Imprisonments and other authorities grievous to his Majestie 's subjects and to them given by the same Patent being by your wisdomes weighed and examined and the Petitioners with their Councell heard that this honourable House upon hearing thereof being truly informed of the said generall wrong such course may be therein taken through your Justice and grave Wisdomes as may tend to the relief of your Petitioners and the good of the Common-wealth And they as in duty bound shall daily pray to God for your ever during prosperities c. Your Petitioners preferring their Petition to his Highnesse touching the Premises his Majesty was thereby graciously pleased to leave the Petitioners free to seek any lawfull remedy for their grievances either in Parliament or otherwise Rich. Cooper Tho. Allen. Rich. Mapes E. Ingolsbye Will. Clowes Iohn Woodall Tho. Bonham Christoph Frederick C.

either actually engaged in the late Rebellion or bred up in some mean and contemptible trades were never taught the duty they owe to God or their Sovereign to their Native Country or the Laws thereof We hope therefore that Your Lordship will pardon us in begging your Honour's favour and Protection for the encouragement and defence of a Society though established by Royal Graunts and Acts of Parliament thus rudely assaulted by barbarous and illiterate Mechanicks Your Lordship 's profound knowledge in the Laws of your Countrey as well as in all humane learning is no less known and admired than your eminent exemplary courage and constant faithfulness to the Crown and Government in Church and State as 't is now by Law established to the preservation of which your Lordship 's singular wisedom vigilancy and unwearied endeavours have highly and successfully contributed To which purposes that your Lordship may long live in the favour of your Prince and affections of all his Loyal and good Subjects is and shall be the constant and ardent desire of Your Lordship's Most humble and devoted Servant Charles Goodall THE COLLEDGE OF PHYSICIANS Established by LAW c. 3 H. VIII C. 11. An Act for the appointing of Physicians and Surgeons TO the King our Sovereign Lord and to all the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Forasmuch as the science and cunning of Physick and Surgery to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great learning and ripe experience is daily within this Realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same nor in any other kind of learning Some also can no letters on the Book so far forth that common Artificers as Smiths Weavers and Women boldly and accustomably take upon them great Cures and things of great difficulty in the which they partly use Sorcery and Witchcraft partly apply such Medicines unto the disease as be very noious and nothing meet therefore to the high displeasure of God great infamy to the Faculty and the grievous hurt damage and destruction of many of the King's Liege people most especially of them that cannot discern the uncunning from the cunning Be it therefore to the surety and comfort of all manner people by the authority of this present Parliament enacted 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 Pauls for the time being calling to him or them four Doctors of Physick and for Surgery other expert persons in that faculty and for the first examination such as they shall think convenient and afterward alway four of them that have been so approved upon the pain of forfeiture for every month that they doe occupy as Physicians or Surgeons not admitted nor examined after the tenour of this Act of 5 li. to be imployed the one half thereof to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King and the other half thereof to any person that will sue for it by Action of Debt in which no wager of Law nor Protection shall be allowed 2. And over this That no person out of the said City and Precinct of seven miles of the same except he have been as is aforesaid approved in the same take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Surgeon in any Diocess within this Realm out if he be first examined and approved by the Bishop of the same Diocess or he being out of the Diocess by his Vicat-general either of them calling to them such expert persons in the said faculties as their discretion shall think convenient and giving their Letters Testimonials under their Seal to him that they shall so approve upon like pain to them that occupy contrary to this Act as is above said to be levyed and employed after the form before expressed 3. Provided alway That this Act nor any thing therein contained be prejudicial to the Vniversities of Oxford or Cambridge or either of them or to any Privileges granted to them 2 Memorand That Surgeons be comprised in this Act as Physicians for like mischief of ignorant persons presuming to exercise Surgery Rast Pla. fol. 426. 5 H. VIII C. 6. An Act concerning Surgeons to be discharged of Quests and other things SHeweth unto your discreet wisedoms your humble Orators the Wardens and Fellowship of the craft and mystery of Surgeons enfranchifed in the City of London not passing in number 12 persons That whereas they and their Predecessors from the time that no mind is to the contrary as well in this noble City of London as in all other Cities and Boroughs within this Realm or elsewhere for the continual service and attendance that they daily and nightly at all hours and times give to the King's liege people for the relief of the same according to their science have been exempt and discharged from all offices and business wherein they should use or bear any manner of Armour or Weapon and with like privilege have béen intreated as Heralds of Arms as well in battels and fields as other places there for to stand unharnessed and unweaponed according to the Law of Arms because they be persons that never used feats of War nor ought to use but only the business and exercise of their science to the help and comfort of the King's liege people in the time of their need 2 And in the aforesaid City of London from the time of their first Incorporation when they have been many mo in number than they be now were never called nor charged to be on Quest Watch nor other Office whereby they should use or occupy any Armour or defenceable géer of War wherethrough they should be unready and letted to practise their cure of men being in peril 3 Therefore for that there be so small number of the said fellowship of the craft and mystery of Surgeons in regard of the great multitude of Patients that be and daily chance and infortune hapneth and increaseth in the foresaid City of London and that many of the King's liege people suddenly wounded and hurt for default of help in time to them to be shewed perish and so divers have done as evidently is known by occasion that your said suppliants have béen compelled to attend upon such Constableship Watches and Iuries as is aforesaid 4 Be it enacted and established by the King our Sovereign Lord and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same that from henceforth your said Suppliants be discharged and not chargeable of Constableship Watch and of all manner of office bearing any armour and also of all Enquests and Iuries within the City of London 5 And also that this Act in all