1564 to 1568, both included, during the greater portion of which time Caius was at Cambridge, engaged on the affairs of the college there which bears his name. In 1569 Dr. Caius is again in London, and resumes the College Annals, which he continued to 1572, the year before his death. There is then another blank until 1581, on the 3rd of November in which year Roger Marbeck, M.D., was elected for life to the office of Registrar, one of the most important of whose duties as then defined was to note and faithfully register in a book the proceedings and acts of the College. How fully and admirably Dr. Marbeck did this the Annals for the period he held the office of Registrar sufficiently testify. From the date of Dr. Marbeck's appointment down to e present time the Annals, with one exception, are complete. The XIVth volume, comprising the ten years from June, 1771, to June, 1781, has been missing for many years. This volume is said to have been abstracted from the College in Warwicklane at the end of the last or the beginning of the present century and it is presumed destroyed, by a Fellow of the College during his tenure of office as Treasurer, whose rejection by the Censors' board, when he first came before them for examination as Candidate, stood recorded in that volume. the The Annals, which originally and for many years were written in Latin, towards the end of the 17th century began to be kept in English. This change was made advisedly, and on the recommendation of counsel, the variety of styles in Latin and the uncertain acceptation of many Latin phrases rendering the Annals as a record of less legal value than if they were written in English, and in the plainest words.' They have been so kept from that time. During Dr. Whistler's tenure of office as Registrar the Annals were very carelessly kept, and the few entries made 11691-2, Feb. V. "Some of the Fellows inquiring the reason why the Register was now kept in English which formerly used to be in Latin, answer was made that this was done by advice of our counsel, who told us that by reason of the variety of styles in Latin, and the uncertain acceptation of many Latin phrases, the Register Book would not be that use to the College as a record upon many occasions as if it were kept in English, and that in the plainest words that could be." Annales. by him are inserted without any attempt at natural sequence or order. To prevent a recurrence of such irregularity, it was decreed that the Book of Annals should be inspected by the Censors in the week immediately preceding each of the four ordinary quarterly Comitia, to see that the proceedings of the College were duly recorded. But this rule, if ever acted on (of which there is no proof), soon fell into desuetude. I add the dates at which each volume of the Annals begins and ends :— Vol. I begins with 1518, ends with 1572. 30th September, 1581, ends 30th September, 1608. 22nd December, 1608, II III 3rd September, 1647. LECTURES AND LECTURERS. ANATOMY LECTURES.-At a very early period in the history of the College of Physicians we read of "Anatomy Lectures," 1 1684, Dec. xxii. "Constitutum est, quod Librum Annalium Collegii singulis septimanis ante stata Comitia ad quatuor anni tempora æque distantia celebrata, Censores inspiciant, quo plenis Comitiis referatur num Decreta ibidem descripta, ritè observata fuerint." Annales. delivered annually in the College, and of the duty that devolved on each fellow of giving them in his turn. There is nothing in the Annals to show when or under what circumstances these anatomy lectures were instituted. It was probably about 15651 when permission was obtained from queen Elizabeth, under the broad seal, for dissections to be performed within the walls of the College. The object of these lectures undoubtedly was to promote the study and maintain an adequate knowledge of anatomy in all persons who practised physic under the sanction of the College, for the Candidates and Licentiates were regularly summoned to attend the lectures, and were liable to be fined if they omitted to do so. The first mention of the anatomy lectures in the Annals is in 1569-70, and it is in terms which seem to indicate that they were already established, and that it was a recognised rule that the fellows of the College were to deliver them in turn. Due care was taken that the "subjects" 1 Vide Note, p. 319. The words of the grant of Elizabeth are :— Quod jure publico hujus regni furti homicidii vel cujuscumque feloniæ condemnatum et mortuum fuerit." Goodall, on College Affairs, p. 35. 2 Among the earliest Statutes that have come down to us is the following:-"Prælectio Anatomica apud majores nostros ejus momenti semper habita est, ut paucissimis ex omni memoriâ Collegis, neque id nisi propter gravissimas causas, facta sit gratia excusandi sese ab eo munere. Ne autem id sæpius fieret ut hujusmodi dispensationes in consuetudinem et exemplum abirent inde metus erat ne tam utilis institutio paulatim intercideret, obviam eundum esse putaverunt, per Statuta et pænas principio leves, et aucta periculo postea graviores. Quorum prudens institutum nos sequi cupientes, næ admittendi posthâc in Societatem Collegii adducti spe similitèr declinandi in perpetuum hujus laboris minus seriò ei studio animum intendant: Statuimus et Ordinamus, ut recusantibus munus ordinariæ prælecturæ Anatomicæ, et volentibus in totum se eximere ab eo onere, pæna sit viginti librarum persolvendarum Collegio, nisi propter gravissima impedimenta Præsidenti et majori parti Collegarum in plenis Comitiis approbanda: nam in causis minoris momenti, et in quibus non perpetuæ exemptionis sed laxionis temporis ad legendum gratia quæritur, relinquimus arbitrio Præsidentis, quousq id patentibus concedendum sit; modo dilatio concessa terminum septem mensium non excedat. In quo etiam casu, volumus ut dilatio prioris lecturæ non cedat in beneficium succedentis prælectoris, sed ut is, tempus præceptum sibi a Præsidente perinde teneatur observare, ac si nulla talis dilatio." Goodall's MS. On College Affairs, pp. 55–6. in used for dissection should be decently buried in wooden coffins, and they were interred with the usual religious rites in the churchyard of the parish in which the College was situated. The anatomy lectures continued to be given with varying regularity up to the destruction of the College in Amen-corner, the great fire of 1666, and possibly for some time longer, but there are reasons to believe that they were discontinued about that time, and allowed to merge in or be superseded by the Gulstonian lectures, to be presently mentioned. LUMLEIAN LECTURES AND LECTURERS.-In the twenty-fourth year of queen Elizabeth, anno 1581, Richard Caldwell, M.D., a fellow of the College, and the Lord Lumley, obtained her Majesty's leave, under the broad seal, to found a surgical lecture in the College of Physicians, and to endow it with forty pounds per annum, laid as a rent-charge upon the lands of Lord Lumley and Dr. Caldwell, and their heirs for ever. Lord Lumley's moiety of twenty pounds was charged on his estates in Sussex, called Avenall, and the rectory of Billinghurst; and Dr. Caldwell's moiety on estates in Anstey and Burton-upon-Trent, and at Wellington and Repton, in Derbyshire. The College, on the grant of the letters patent, "did immediately decree that one hundred pounds should be forthwith taken out of their public stock to build the College rooms more ample and spacious for the better celebration of this most solemn lecture." At first the appointment to the Lumleian lectureship was for life, and so it continued for many years; then for a short time it was for five years; but since 1825 the lecturer has been nominated annually, but generally for two years in succession. The following is a list of the lecturers on the Lumleian foundation : 1 "1608. Feb. xxiv. Decretum ut cadavera dissecta per Prælectores Anatomicos deinceps cophino sepeliantur ligneo, è sumptibus Collegii." Annales. we read: 2 In the Burial Register of St. Martin's Ludgate, “1615. Feb. 28, was buried an anatomy from the College of Phy sicians.' Burn J. S., Registrum Ecclesia Parochialis. The History of Parish Registers in England. 2nd ed. 8vo. Lond. 1862, p. 1582.? 1602. 1607. June 5. 1615. Aug. Richard Forster, M.D.1 Thomas Davies, M.D. Obt. May, 1607. Harvey commenced his Lumleian lectures at the College in April, 1616, and is generally supposed to have expounded on that occasion those original and complete views of the circulation of the blood which have made him the glory and honour of English physicians. He resigned his lectureship in July, 1656. 1749. Nov. 1755. Dec. 1773. 1786. 1789. 1811. 1827. 1829. Resigned 1749. William Battie, M.D., "for five years." Swithin Adee, M.D. Obt. 12 Aug., 1786. Dec. 22. Thomas Healde, M.D. Obt. 26 Mar., 1789. James Hervey, M.D. Resigned 1811. Peter Mere Latham, M.D.' The date of the appointment of the first Lumleian lecturer, Dr. Forster, is not recorded, but it would seem to have been in 1582 or 1583, on the receipt of the indenture (3rd August, 1582), establishing the lecture. There is a note on the 17th July, 1584, of the want of attendance at these "the Chirurgical lectures." 21711. De Ossibus Capitis. 1714. On Phlegmon. 1715. De Erysipelate et de Morbis Cutaneis. 1716. De Febribus. 1746. De Anima Medica. 1749. De Principiis Animalibus Exercitationes in Coll. Reg. Medic. Lond. habitæ. 4to. Lond. 1757. 1827. On Some Diseases of the Heart: in London Medical Gazette. Vol. iii. 1829. On the Recent Improvements in the Art of Distinguishing the Various Diseases of the Heart. VOL. III. Folio. Lond. 1830. |