Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life, Character, and Services of Ambrose Par??? Much of this dispute respecting the authenticity of Pare's writings doubtless had its origin in the fact that the College of Paris, composed exclusively of physicians, claimed the privilege of licensing books, a privilege which Pare Spurned, inasmuch as he had obtained a direct order for issuing his works from the king. The College had evidently not supposed that a surgeon could write so great a treatise upon anatomy, surgery, pharmacy, campaigns, ...
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Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life, Character, and Services of Ambrose Par??? Much of this dispute respecting the authenticity of Pare's writings doubtless had its origin in the fact that the College of Paris, composed exclusively of physicians, claimed the privilege of licensing books, a privilege which Pare Spurned, inasmuch as he had obtained a direct order for issuing his works from the king. The College had evidently not supposed that a surgeon could write so great a treatise upon anatomy, surgery, pharmacy, campaigns, and natural history; its range was far beyond their comprehension, and it was therefore perhaps natural for them, especially as they were extremely jealous of their imagined rights, to accuse Pare of having furnished merely a compilation, the labor chiefly of young physicians, as if young medical men were more competent to compose a treatise on surgery than one who had devoted a whole lifetime to its practice and contemplation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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