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Patronage and power: the College of Physicians and the Jacobean court

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1998

FRANCES DAWBARN
FRANCES DAWBARN
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YG
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Abstract

In 1605, not content with having found key positions at court for his favourite Scottish physicians, some of whom were known Paracelsians, James VI of Scotland and I of England ensured their acceptance as members of the London College of Physicians by having the College statutes altered. As a Scot (and therefore a foreigner), Thomas Craig, James's chief physician during his Scottish reign, should have been automatically excluded, and the Comitia of the College, which met on 3 January 1605 to discuss, among other matters, the eligibility of Craig for membership, duly explained its predicament to James.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 1 - 19
Copyright
© 1998 British Society for the History of Science

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Footnotes

Editor's note. This essay won the Society's Singer Prize Competition, 1996.