The Practitioner . In the ante-chapelare two brasses (Fig. 12) showing the figures of WilliamMarkeby, who died in 1439, and his wife Ahce ; in the northwall of the church is a monument to Ann, wife of Sir ThomasBodley, founder of the Bodleian Librar\ at Oxford. The tombof Robert Balthrope, serjeant-surgeon to Queen Elizabeth(Fig. 13), is in the wall behind the organ, and the tomb ofJohn Freke, surgeon (1729-1755), is interesting. It is of tiieperpendicular period, and Dr. Moore suggests that it may havebelonged originally to John Wakeryng, master of the hospitalfrom 1422-1466. The earliest rec
The Practitioner . In the ante-chapelare two brasses (Fig. 12) showing the figures of WilliamMarkeby, who died in 1439, and his wife Ahce ; in the northwall of the church is a monument to Ann, wife of Sir ThomasBodley, founder of the Bodleian Librar\ at Oxford. The tombof Robert Balthrope, serjeant-surgeon to Queen Elizabeth(Fig. 13), is in the wall behind the organ, and the tomb ofJohn Freke, surgeon (1729-1755), is interesting. It is of tiieperpendicular period, and Dr. Moore suggests that it may havebelonged originally to John Wakeryng, master of the hospitalfrom 1422-1466. The earliest record of a medical school at St. Bartholomewshospital is in 1662, when students used to attend the medicaland surgical practice, their studies being assisted five years laterby the formation of a library for the use of the governorsand young university scholars. In 1726 accommodation wasprovided for a museum of anatomical and chirurgical prepara-tions placed under the charge of John Freke, then an assistant Plate Imo.
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