Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre.

  • Galen.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Galeni Pergamensis de temperamentis et de inaequali intemperie libri tres / Thomas Linacro Anglo interprete. Opus non medicis modo, sed et philosophis oppido q[uem] necessariu[m] nunc primum prodit in lucem cum gratia & privilegio. Impressum apud praeclaram Cantabrigiam per Joannem Siberch, anno MDXXI. Reproduced in exact facsimile, with an introduction by Joseph Frank Payne and a portrait of Thomas Linacre. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    had foiinded schools of surgery in many European cities, (among others in Oxford, before the rise of the University) were versed in Arabian learning, and thus it came to pass that medicine presented itself to the mediaeval world in an Arabian dress. From these sources and from the teachers of the school of Salerno, were compiled the manuals of the Arabistae or Neoterici, which under such names as Articella, Practica, Lilium Medicinse, Rosa Anglica were the daily guides of the medical practitioner. When the Arabian writers fell into disrepute, partly through being condemned as heretical, and partly as being barbarous in style, it was regarded, if one may say so, as a sort of in- dignity that Medical Science should still be so much beholden to the infidel sages. Those physicians who were also scholars felt this to be a reproach which must be wiped out. This feeling, fantastic as it may seem, was apparently wide-spread through the little world of scholars, and has been expressed by one of them in a manner so strange that I cannot forbear to quote it both for the sake of the grain of truth which it con- tains, and for its unconscious reflection of the fantastic ideas of the age. The author Symphorien Champier was a physician of Lyons, a voluminous writer as well as a liberal and wealthy patron of letters. The extract is from a short tract Symphonia Galeni ad Hippocratem, Cornelii Celsi ad Avicennam, una : cum sectis a^itiquorum medicorum ac recentium, forming the introduction to a little work on Clysters, CLysteriortim campi : contra Arabum opinionem pro' Galeni sententid, etc, which is known in Hterature as the original of the Treatise on Clysters, by S. C, placed by Rabelais in the catalogue of books : forming the Hbrary of St Victor. After lamenting that for so many centuries pure Hterature,