Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . of this period than the rise in the social position of the surgeon had always been subordinate to the phj-sician, lorin early days the physician was usually an ecclesiastic whilst the. (A 572 REVOLUTION AND BEACTIOX. Rise of the siirgeon was a layman, who performed operations at the commandurgeons. ^^. ^^^^ physician. This position of inferiority was maintained untilquite recently. The College of
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . of this period than the rise in the social position of the surgeon had always been subordinate to the phj-sician, lorin early days the physician was usually an ecclesiastic whilst the. (A 572 REVOLUTION AND BEACTIOX. Rise of the siirgeon was a layman, who performed operations at the commandurgeons. ^^. ^^^^ physician. This position of inferiority was maintained untilquite recently. The College of Physicians procured an Orderof Council in June, 1632, with a clause that no chirurtreon doeeither dismember ( amputate), Trepan the head, open theChest or Belly, cut for the stone, or doe au}^ great operationbut in the presence of a learned physitian ; and there arepersons still alive who remember the time when a surgeonsprescription in a hospital had to be countersigned by thephysician before it could be dispensed if it was for more than ablack draught. It was only the energetic protests of Abernethy,at the beginning of the nineteenth century, which led to thesurgeon gaining a complete control over his own patient. Fromtime immemorial a few surgeons who were not barbers existed inLondon, and perhaps in the other large towns in England. InLondon they formed a guild or c
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