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Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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e, you^r humble scholars and disciples,appeal to your venerable authority, to the masters of the Faculty of Medi-cine (Fig. 112). The physicians, appeased by this indirect act of submis-sion, promised the surgeons to lend them their support so far as theyremained true scholars. But whether because the doctors of the facultychanged their minds, or because the Crown interfered in the interests of thepublic, even at the expense of a privileged body, Charles V. did not takepart with the surgeons, and by his silence confirmed the professional inde-pendence of the master barbers. The surgeons thereupon adopted a betterand more dignified way of asserting their superiority. Henceforth, theydeclared in their new statutes, every apprentice shall be able to speak andwrite good Latin; moreover, he shall be of comely appearance and free MEDICAL SCIENCES. iU\ from all deformity: no master shall receive an apprentice who does notbring letters of recommendation from his former master, and the deo-ree
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I iig. 111.—iSliops in an ApotheraryB Street: liarber, Fuiritr, and Tailor.—Jlinialurc iiuiii lliiI Regime des Princes.—Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century.—Arsenal Library, Piiris. of Bachelor, without previous examination, shall cost two gcjlil crowns, 162 MEDICAL SCIENCES. instead of a franc. These precautions were evidently taken in order thataccess to the professorships of St. Cosmo might be limited to students who,by their learning and application to work, would be capable of sustainingthe aristocracy of the surgical body against the invading democracy of thebarbers. There was, moreover, very ample room for choice, as the Collegeof St. Cosmo comprised only ten sworn surgeons. The number of barbers,upon the other hand, steadily increased, and from forty, in the middle of thefourteenth century, it had risen to sixty at the close. The degree of esteemin which each of the three classes of medical men was held may be gatheredfrom the characteristic fact that when the Paris Fa

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