Records of St. Thomas's Hospital / by W. Rendle.

  • Rendle, William, 1811-1893.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Records of St. Thomas's Hospital / by W. Rendle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Numismatique; l’Abbe Sauvage ; Eugene Marie ; le Courtois du Manoir ; le Comte de Lambertye ; Moulin, secretaire de la Society historique de Chateau-Thierry; Armand Adam; Jules Lair; Leon Germain; Hubert Smith and Hellier Gosselin ; Herbert Jones, de la Societd royale des Antiquaries de Londres ; Adolphe Francart, avocat h Mons; le Baron Alfred de Loe; le Comte Lair; Charil de Ruilie ; l’Abbe L£caud6 ; Maxime Buisson ; le Baron iPinoteau!; Gustave Pre- vost; l’Abbe Blanquart; Victor Mignon; Louis Cauchepin; Louis Regrtier; Maurice Pinoteau; Letellier-Alaboissette; Gouverneur; Laignel; Jules de Lauriere, etc., td-v assist upon the occasion of this interesting cere- mony. After an eloquent extempore address from Monsieur Join-Lambert, vice-president of the archaeological section,of Bernay, a most in- teresting paper was read by Monsieur l’Abbe Poree, in which he alluded to the fact that the abbey, now in ruins, near which we were standing, had produced one pope, three Archbishops of Canterbury, numbers of bishops and doctors, and even knights, who had been educated on the forms of the schools of the Abbey of Bec-Hellouin, and with graceful allusion to the purpose of the commemorative^ tablet that day to be in- augurated, he read some most interesting notes of an episode in tne history of the Abbey, in connection with Mazarin, very little known. In the course of the meeting Monsieur Eugbne Niel, as the representative of the Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts, at Rouen, and of the Historical Society of Normandy, gave an interesting discourse, in which he alluded to the Abbey of Bec-Hel- louin as having sent forth so many talented men to England who had contributed so much to the renovation and the advancement of scientific and moral culture of Society in England after the Norman invasion. The following is the concise and comme- morative inscription on the tablet now placed near the Abbey gateway: Abbay of Bee, Of the order of Saint Benoit, Founded by Herluin In 1304. The Schools celebrated throughout the West were under the control of Lanfranc and Saint Anselme. The hospitality of the Order was large ; Their Charity boundless; Their attainments equalled their piety. The Empress Matilda was buried in the church in 1167. Saint Louis staid here in 1256. The Abbay was fortified in 1356. Pillaged by the English in 1421. Was restored by the Abbd Geoffroy d’Epaignes in *453- She adopted the discipline of Saint Maur, and cast a last light upon literature. It was suppressed in 1790. On the occasion of the Archeological Congress, the Free Society of Eure, Section of Bernay, with the concurrence of the Archeological Society and subscribers, Have decided to perpetuate these souvenirs, July, 1889. This must close the first part of the archae- ological notes upon this interesting congress of the Soci<ft<* Fran^aise de Archeologie, and there is no doubt that in a country so full of prehistoric and antiquarian interest that the people of France are now commencing, by the formation of archaeological societies and the production of many philological and historic works, to take more pride in those relics of ancient time which are so numerous and are to be met with-in such variety in every province without excejption throughout la belle France. Hubert Smith. Paris, August 15M, 1889. EccorDs of §>t. Cbomas’0 hospital. By W. Rendle, F.R.C.S. (Continued.) S& m HOPE the editor will allow me, even at the cost of seeming itera- tion, to go on a little further with the surgeons and barber surgeons. We shall the better understand their theoretical status by noting a passage or two from the Anatomic of the Bodie of Man, by Thomas Vicary, 1490—1551, the first master of the Barber Surgeons’ Company, the actual will,