If refused admittance, the
license was forfeited.
In 1712 was the last time a monarch touched a person to cure him
of a malady such as scrofula.
In 1743 surgery students began to dissect corpses with their own
hands to better learn anatomy. In 1744 the Company of Surgeons was
separated out of the Company of Barber-Surgeons. The barbers were
proscribed from performing surgery and had to have a separate
corporation from the surgeons because of the ignorance and
unskillfulness of barbers healing wounds, blows, and hurts e.g. by
blood letting and drawing of teeth. There was a Surgeon's Hall,
officers chosen by the surgeons, and bylaws. The surgeons were
required to examine candidates for the position of surgeon in the
king's army and navy. They were exempted from parish, ward, and
leet offices, and juries. In 1752, a statute provided that the
corpses of murderers were to be sent to the Surgeon's Hall to be
anatomized, for the purpose of deterring murders. The penalty for
rescuing the corpse of a murderer was to suffer death.
The first dispensary for the poor was established in 1769 to give
free medicine and treatment to the infant poor, and then to the
infants of the industrious poor.
The progress of science was seen to threaten the authority of the
church. There was a general belief in God, but not much attention
to Jesus. Feared to come were free thought, rationalism, and
atheism.
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