Lectures on the Whole of Anatomy : an Annotated Translation of Prelectiones Anatomiae Universalis

The lectures were open to Fellows, Candidates, and Licentiates, and were given each year with varying regularity until the great fire of 1666 destroyed the College house in Amen-corner. Some time after this they were discontinued, being merged with or superseded by the Gulstonian lectures. They were independent lectures, quite unrelated to the Lumleian benefaction with which we are now more concerned. In 1581 Richard Caldwell, a Fellow, and Lord Lumley obtained the queen's permission to found a surgical lecture at the College with an endowment of 40 pounds per year, and the College built an appropriate room for "the better celebration of this most solemn lecture." 2 The indenture establishing the lecture was received by the College on August 3, 1582. The best account of its foundation and scope is that given by Holinshed (1587): This yeare, 1582, was there instituted and first founded a publike Lecture or Lesson in Surgerie, to begin to be read in the College of Physicians, in London, in Anno 1584, the sixt day of Maie, against that time new reedified in a part of the house that doctor Linacre gaue by testament to them, by John Lumleie, Lord Lumleie, and Richard Caldwell, doctor in Physicke, to the honour of God, the common profit of hir Maiesties subiects, and good fame, with increase of estimation and credit, of all the surgians of this realme. The reader whereof to be a doctor of physicke, and of good practise and knowledge, and to haue an honest stipend no lesse than those of the vniversities erected by king Henrie the eight, namelie, of law, diuinitie, and physicke, and lands assured to the said college for the maintenance of the publike lesson; whereunto such statutes be annexed as be for the great commoditie of those which shall give and incline themselves to be diligent hearers for the obteining of knowledge in surgerie, as whether he be learned or unlearned that shall become an auditor or hearer of the lecture, he may find himselfe not to repent the time so imploied. First, twise a weeke through out the yeare, to wit, on wednesdaies and fridaies, at ten of the clocke till eleuen, shall the reader read three-quarters of an houre in Latine, and the other quarter in English, wherein that shall be plainlie declared for those that vnderstand not Latine what was said in Latine. And the first yeare to read »Ibid., Ill, 3J2. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.