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List Of Presidents Of The Royal College Of Physicians
The president of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is the elected head of the Royal College of Physicians of England, which was founded by letters patent from King Henry VIII in 1518. The president is elected annually late in the year. Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians *1518–1524 Thomas Linacre *1526 Thomas Bentley *1527–1528 Richard Bartlot *1529–1530 Thomas Bentley *1531 Richard Bartlot *1541–1543 Edward Wotton *1544 John Clement *1545–1546 William Freeman *1547 John Burgess *1548 Richard Bartlot *1549–1550 John Fryer *1551–1552 *1553–1554 George Owen *1555–1560 John Caius *1561 Richard Masters *1562–1563 John Caius *1564–1567 *1568 Thomas Francis *1569 John Symings *1570 Richard Caldwell *1571 John Caius *1572 John Symings *1581–1584 *1585–1588 Richard Smith *1589–1600 William Baronsdale (died in office) *1600 William Gilbert *1601–1603 Richard Forst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal College Of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founded by royal charter from King Henry VIII in 1518, the RCP is the oldest medical college in England. It set the first international standard in the classification of diseases, and its library contains medical texts of great historical interest. The college is sometimes referred to as the Royal College of Physicians of London to differentiate it from other similarly named bodies. The RCP drives improvements in health and healthcare through advocacy, education and research. Its 40,000 members work in hospitals and communities across over 30 medical specialties with around a fifth based in over 80 countries worldwide. The college hosts six training faculties: the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, the Faculty for Pharmaceutical Medicine, the Faculty of Occupational Medicine the Fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Forster (physician)
Richard Forster (c.1546–1616) was an English physician. Life He was son of Laurence Forster, and was born at Coventry about 1546, and was educated at All Souls' College, Oxford. He graduated at Oxford, M.B. and M.D., both in 1573. He became fellowof the College of Physicians of London about 1575, but his admission is not mentioned in the ''Annals.'' In 1583 he was elected one of the censors, in 1600 treasurer, and Lumleian lecturer in 1602. He was president of the college from 1601 to 1604, and was again elected in 1615 and held office till his death on 27 March 1616. He had considerable medical practice, and was also esteemed as a mathematician, as reported by William Camden, when recording his death, William Clowes, the surgeon, praises him, and in 1591 writes of Forster as 'a worthie reader of the surgerie lector in the Phisition's college,' showing that he gave lectures before the Lumleian lectures were formally instituted in 1602. He was a practicing astrologer, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Coxe
Thomas Coxe (1615–1685) was an English physician. He studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1635 and an MA in 1638. He was among the initial fellows of the Royal Society, but ran into money difficulties in old age. Life The son of Thomas Coxe, he was born in Somerset. He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1633, graduating BA in 1635, and MA in 1638. He took his MD degree at Padua 12 December 1641, and was later incorporated at Oxford, in 1646. A physician in the parliamentary army during the First English Civil War, Coxe is supposed to have pointed Thomas Sydenham in the direction of medicine while attending his brother. He associated with the Hartlib circle. He also visited Sarah Wight, one of Henry Jessey's congregation, who undertook a 75-day fast in 1647, and was then connected with radical religious groups. Coxe became a fellow of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1649. Around 1655, he took on the Puritan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Micklethwaite
Sir John Micklethwaite M.D. (1612–1682) was an English physician, who attended Charles II. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians. Life John Micklethwaite was the son of Thomas Micklethwaite, rector of Cherry Burton, Yorkshire, and was baptised, 23 August 1612, in the church of Bishop Burton, three miles from Beverley. He entered at the University of Leyden as a medical student in 1637, and took the degree of M.D. at the University of Padua in 1638. He proceeded M.D. by incorporation at Oxford 14 April 1648. On 26 May 1643, Micklethwaite was appointed assistant physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital to Dr John Clarke, whose eldest daughter he married, and he was elected physician 13 May 1653. The Long Parliament, 12 Feb. 1644, had recommended him for promotion, "in the place of Dr. Harvey, who hath withdrawn himself from his charge and is retired to the party in arms against the Parliament." He was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians 11 November 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ent
George Ent (6 November 1604 – 13 October 1689) was an English scientist in the seventeenth century. Biography Ent was born on 6 November 1604 in Sandwich, Kent. He was the son of a Belgian immigrant, Josias Ent (sometimes called John Ent) and his wife Judith; The Ent (or Ente) family of Sandwich came from Newchurch, in the county of Flanders, to avoid religious persecution. George Ent's father died in July 1629, his mother in 1650, As a boy, Ent went to school in Wallachia and Rotterdam, but attended college in England. He left for college in April 1624, and received his BA from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1627 and his MA four years later. Following his graduation from Sidney, he spent five years at the University of Padua, earning his MD in 1636. On 25 June 1639, Sir George Ent became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and remained a fellow for the duration of his life. In addition, he served as a censor from 1645 to 1669 (with gaps in service in 1650, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Glisson
Francis Glisson (1597 – 14 October 1677Guido Giglioni'Glisson, Francis (1599?–1677)' ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 31 December 2008) was a British physician, anatomist, and writer on medical subjects. He did important work on the anatomy of the liver, and he wrote an early pediatric text on rickets. An experiment he performed helped debunk the balloonist theory of muscle contraction by showing that when a muscle contracted under water, the water level did not rise, and thus no air or fluid could be entering the muscle. Glisson was born in Bristol and was educated in Rampisham, Dorset, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Glisson is a well-known medical eponym; he was for forty years Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge. He died in London. The Glisson family can be traced to present-day Somerset ( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Alston
Sir Edward Alston (1595–24 December 1669), was the president of the College of Physicians. Alston was born in Suffolk, son of Edward Alston of Edwardstone, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1615, M.D. 1626. In 1631 he was elected a fellow of the College of Physicians, and was president from 1655 until 1666. At the Restoration he was knighted (3 September 1660). He increased the power of the college by a judicious inclusion of physicians who during the English Civil War had practised without the college license. Thus seventy honorary fellows were created at once. Their diploma fees filled the almost empty college chest, but while the college was unguarded during the plague Plague or The Plague may refer to: Agriculture, fauna, and medicine *Plague (disease), a disease caused by ''Yersinia pestis'' * An epidemic of infectious disease (medical or agricultural) * A pandemic caused by such a disease * A swarm of pe ..., thieves carried off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Prujean
Sir Francis Prujean (also Pridgeon) M.D. (1593–1666) was an English physician. Life The son of Francis Prujean, rector of Boothby, Lincolnshire, he was born at Bury St Edmunds, and educated by his father. He entered Caius College, Cambridge as a sizar, on 23 March 1610, and graduated M.B. in 1617, and M.D. in 1625. He became a licentiate of the College of Physicians of London on 22 December 1621, and was elected a fellow in 1626. Prujean practised in Lincolnshire till 1638, and then settled in London. In 1639 he was elected a censor at the College of Physicians, and again from 1642 to 1647. He was registrar from 1641 to 1647, and president from 1650 to 1654, in the last of which years he was chosen, on the recommendation of William Harvey who declined the post. He was treasurer from 1655 to 1663. Prujean had a large practice, and was knighted by Charles II on 1 April 1661. When Queen Catherine of Braganza had typhus fever in October 1663, he attended her, and her recovery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clark (17th-century Physician)
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Simeon Fox
Simeon Fox (or Foxe), M.D. (1568–1642) was an English physician, who became President of the College of Physicians. Life He was the youngest son of John Foxe, and was born in the house of the Duke of Norfolk. He was educated at Eton College, and on 24 August 1583 was elected a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. in 1587, having become a fellow 24 August 1586. He graduated M.A. in 1591. Bishop John Piers promised him a prebend, but he preferred to study medicine. After leaving college he resided for some time with Archbishop John Whitgift, then visited Italy, and took the degree of M.D. at the University of Padua. On his return home he engaged in military service, and was with Sir John Norris and the Earl of Southampton in Ireland and the Netherlands. In the Low Countries he is said to have been taken prisoner and detained for a time at Dunkirk. He reached London in 1603, and began to practise medicine, attaining prominence in his profession. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munk's Roll
The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to as Munk's Roll, is a series of published works containing biographical entries of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians. It was published in print in eleven volumes (1861 to 2004) with a twelfth online (2005 to present). The series is now titled Inspiring Physicians (from 2020). The series has been informally known as Munk’s Roll, after the original compiler, for over a century. However, the formal name for the series of volumes (1-11) in print, is Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. History Munk's Roll was initially the work of the College's Harveian Librarian, William Munk. The first published edition (1861) was originally prepared as manuscript in three large volumes, containing biographical information on all physicians who were connected with the College, with no thought to publication. Each volume of the manuscript was presented to the Colleglibraryupon its co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Argent
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
