Thomas Bonham (physician)
Thomas Bonham M.D. (c. 1564 – c. 1628)[1] was an English physician, now remembered for his involvement in Dr. Bonham's Case, of legal rather than medical significance.
Life
Bonham was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1581, and M.A. in 1585. He was incorporated B.A. at Oxford in 1584, and on 9 July 1611 was M.D. there.[2] He practised his profession in London, and was an assistant to the Society of Medicine-Chirurgians. His death occurred about 1629.[3]
Bonham's Case
Bonham was a physician by qualification, with a Cambridge medical degree (date now unclear), styling himself a medical doctor by 1602. He was not thereby qualified to practise in London by administering internal remedies, without a license from the
Still faced with a large fine from the college for unlicensed practice, Bonham pursued the matter by legal means, which set the
Works
Bonham left books and papers to his servant, Edward Poeton, by whom they were edited and published as The Chyrurgians Closet, or Antidotarie Chyrurgicall, London 1630. The work was dedicated by Poeton, then residing at Petworth in Sussex, to Frances, Dowager Countess of Exeter, second wife of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter.[3]
Notes
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2841. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "Bonham, Thomas (BNN581T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Bonham, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.