Gilbertus Anglicus, Medicine, of the Thirteenth Century
by Henry Ebenezer Handerson (9780217483162)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: At a meeting of the Council of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, held on May 14, the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Henry E. Handerson the Cleveland Medical Library Association has sustained the loss of one of its most honored and devoted members. His scholarly acquirements were notable, and his eminence as a medical historian generally recognized. His deep interest in the welfare of the Library and his thorough attention to every detail of his official duties were always evident, while his lovable personal qualities endeared him to all. The Association desires to express its high appreciation of his long and valued services, and extends to his bereaved family its heartfelt and sincere sympathy. C. A. HAMANN, WM. EVANS BRUNER, J. B. McGEE. Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert of England) A Study of Englieh Medicine in tLe Thirteenth Century. By H. E. Handerson, A. M., M. D. CLEVELAND "Nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present came to be what it is."?Stubbs?Constitutional Hist, of England. Among the literary monuments of early English medicine the "Compendium Medicinae" of Gilbertus Anglicus merits a prominent position as the earliest complete treatise on general medicine by an English author which has been preserved to our day, and equally because it forms in itself a very complete mirror of the medical science of its age and its country. Gilbert was undoubtedly one of the most famous physicians of his time. His reputation is recognized in those well-known lines of Chaucer which catalogue the "authorities" of his Doctor of Phisik: "Wei knew he the olde Esculapius And Deyscorides and eek Rufus, Olde Ypocras, Haly and Galyen, Serapion, Razis and Avycen, Averrois, Damascien an...

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