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.

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1908
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1590. He died in 1603 and was buried in the church within the hospital. The first Spanish dictionary was published in London in 1591 under the title of * BiUiotJieca Hispanica; by Eichard Percy vail: Gent.' The dedication to ^Eobert Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount Hereford and Bourghchier, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Louvaine, Master of the Queen's Majestie's horse and Knight of the Garter', is followed by an address to the reader. In this, after describ- ing the aims and contents of the book, and the help he had received from Don Pedro de Valdes and Don Vasco de Sylva, Percyvall says : * In very good time I chaunced to be acquainted with the learned gentle- man Master Thomas Doyley, doctor in Physicke, who had begunne a Dictionary in Spanish, English and Latine, and seeing me to be more foreward to the presse than himself: very friendly gave his consent to the publishing of mine, wishing me to adde the Latin to it as hee had begunne in his, which I per- formed, being not a little farthered therein by his advice and conference.' The generosity of Doyley seems to have been as great as his learning, and having thus contributed to the dictionary he wrote a short Latin poem in praise of it:— Quas novus orbis opes, quos profert India fructus, Quas mare, quas tellus gemmas aurique fodinas. Has habet Hispanus, Jasonis vellere dives : Cum populo aurato collubet ergo loqui. Expetit Hispanus Belgas evincere, regem Gallorum per vim regno depellere, regnum