The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles : The Fitzpatrick lectures for 1905-6 delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London / Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1908
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    to be buried should he die. The king, speaking no doubt in French, said, * To God and St. Wulstan I recommend my body and soul.' This seems to have been on St. Luke's day, and he died the night follow- ing. His illness, thus terminating within a week and beginning with a violent rigor and aggravated by his moving on from Swinestead instead of staying in bed, may have been acute pneumonia or an acute gastro-enteritis, aggravated by exhaustion, mental and physical. The abbot of Crokestone, * qui Medi- cus regis tunc temporis extiterat,' made a necropsy, * facta anatomia de corpore regio,' not for patho- logical purposes but ^ ut honestius portaretur'. He carried the viscera to his own religious house, and there honourably buried them. The body with its proper ornaments was borne to Worcester, where the royal tomb may be seen to this day. Eobert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln from 1235 to 1253, knew Greek as well as Latin, and in his extensive reading he had not neglected medical books and was able to apply his knowledge. To a preaching friar whose health was imperfect he recommended sufficient food, proper sleep, and good humour, clearly having in his mind the lines of the School of Salernum: Si tibi deficiant Medici, Medici tibi fiant Haec tria : mens hilaris, requies, moderata dieta. He advised another friar, who had a tendency to melancholia, to take a cup of good wine; and his insistence on its quality, when his own ascetic life and the context are considered, shows that he had