The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII, the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the Royal College of Physicians : With memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, ... from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII, the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the Royal College of Physicians : With memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, ... from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Should the quotations appear prolix, or the notes superfluous, the reader may justly as- cribe their insertion less to an affectation of research, than to a desire of avoiding the his- torical and biographical errors, which an idle habit of quoting at second hand, and the practice of giving statements, without any reference to the works from which the writer s information was derived, generally induces; and nowhere has an author been cited, without a comparison of the text with the authority on which the citation is founded. Whether the subject of the present bio- graphy was sufficiently distinguished in the 1 epublic of letters or of medicine ; or whether the events of his life were sufficiently varied or important to merit a history beyond the scattered notices which are to be found in the writings of different authors, may per- haps excite a doubt. Belonging, however, to the institution, which owns this individual as its founder, and participating in that re- spectability, to which it has mainly contri- buted, (the best guarantee to society of the importance of the art, and competency of its