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and alchemy, and the scientific era of Harvey 1 . 

 But physicians were not only blind to the great 

 services to the whole art of medicine of the surgical 

 school of Lanfranc in the fourteenth century, of Guy 

 de Chauliac in the &fBeenth, and of Pare and Gale 

 in the sixteenth century, advances even accelerated 

 in the seventeenth, but they ignored also their 

 very origin, and even withdrew from fellowship 

 with the surgeon ; to our grievous harm from 

 those days unto our own 2 . Surgery was excluded 

 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of 



1 Haeser says (vol. n. p. 433) : " Einen sehr bedeutenden 

 Aufschwung nahm die Chirurgie im Zeitalter Harvey's bei 

 den Englandern, unter denen bis dahin kein Wundarzt ersten 

 Ranges aufgetreten war. Nach kurzer Zeit erlangten die 

 englischen Chirurgen durch allgemeine Bildung, griindliche 

 Kenntniss der Anatomic, und praktische Gelegenheit ein 

 entschiedenes Uebergewicht iiber die bis dahin herrschende 

 franzosische Schule." Cf. also Baremberg, Hist, et Doct. vol. i. 

 p. 281 et seq. 



3 In the Medical Magazine (May, June, July, August, and 

 Sept. 1899) is an interesting essay by Mr D'Arcy Power, " How 

 Surgery became a profession in London." Mr Power tells us 

 that a scheme for the unity of the medical profession in London 

 was set on foot in 1423, when the surgeons were the more 

 highly organised body. A " Rector of Medicine " was indeed 

 elected (Master Gilbert Kymer). It is not known how long 

 the conjoint faculty of medicine and surgery lasted in London; 

 but unhappily for our profession it seems to have been 

 dissolved in a very few years. 



