The anatomie of the bodie of man / by Thomas Vicary ; edited by Fredk. J. Furnivall and Percy Furnivall.

  • Vicary, Thomas, -1561.
Date:
1888
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    of the newly amalganuated Companies of Barbers and Surgeons, and is painted—with other Surgeons, Barbers and Physicians—by Holbein. In this year 1541, he also gets a beneficial lease for 60 years, from Sir Thos. Wyat, the poet, of lands in Eoxley, Kent. In 1542, he and his son William (also probably a Surgeon) are appointed by Henry, Bailiffs of Boxley Manor, &c. in Kent, with yearly salaries of £10 each. In Sept. 1546-7, Vicary is again Master of the united Company of Barbers and Surgeons. In Dec, 1547, he marries his second wife, Alice Bucke. In 1546-7, Henry VIII handed over Bartholomew's (with other Hospitals, &c.) to the City of London. He gave it a small endow- ment (nominally £333 odd) out of tumble-down houses, which he charged with pensions to parsons. The balance of the endowment was but enough to keep, as patients, ' thre or foure harlottes, then being in chyldbedde.' So the City set to work, raisd £1000 for repairs, fittings, <fec., practically re-opend the Hospital, for 100 patients, and, on 29 Sept. 1548, appointed Chief-Surgeon Vicary as one of the 6 new Governors of the Hospital to act with the 6 old ones. Vicary must soon after have become Resident Surgical Governor of the Hospital. He was re-appointed annually; he is given the old Convent Garden in June 1551 ; and in June 1552 is made ' one of the assistants of this house for the terme of his lyflfe' (extract by Dr. N. Moore). He has 3 Surgeons under him, at £18 (1549), and then £20 (1552) a year each. The Hospital finds him a Livery gown, and repairs his house. He holds his appointment tiU his death, late in 1561, or early in 1562. That to him is due part of the Hospital organization, and some of the beautiful unselfish spirit shown in the City ' Ordre' for Barts in 1552, we do not doubt. This ' Ordre' no one can read without admiring. In Sept. 1548, Vicary was, for the 4th time, elected Master of the Barber-Surgeons. In 1548 too, he publisht his Anatomie—i\iQ first in English on the subject,—but whether this was after or before ho was made a Governor of Barts, we cannot say. The book was reprinted by the Surgeons of Barts in 1577, with a few Forewords; and from the unique copy of that issue, the earliest now known, our reprint is made, with added head-lines and side-notes. Frequently supplemented, Vicary's little Anatoviie held the field for 150 years. (Unluckily the biographical details of an Italian doctor in one of the addtid Treatises, have been lately set down to Vicary.)