Medicine in the Time of Queen Elizabeth I

states, "a love and reverence toward's learning," and bestowed the sun of her favour on physicians and surgeons, although she was chary of granting dignities and rewards m for their services. In her time there were three classes of medical practitioners the physician, who was just ceasing to be an ecclesiphysicians were named Elects, who should yearly appoint from among themselves a President. No person except a medical graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, --------------without dispensation, was permitted to practise physic throughout England unless he had been examined and _ :. :-: approved by the President and three of the