1. An Asclepiad Family – the Chamberlens and DeLaunes, 1569-1792: Five generations of surgeons, physicians, Accoucheurs and apothecaries Abstract When in 1747 Dr Peter Chamberlen wrote in his apologia, 'A Voice in Rhama', that he was nursed up (as from the Cradle) to all Parts of Physick, and that in Asclepiad-Families he was not referring simply to his father and uncle, the Peters (Younger and