Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton.

  • Carlton, William J. (William John), 1886-1973.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Timothe Bright, doctor of phisicke : a memoir of "the father of modern shorthand" / by William J. Carlton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The dedication of Therapeutica is dated “ Cantdbrigia, ex cedibus meis xiiij. Martij, 1582 ” [;i.e1583]. Both parts were dedicated to Lord Burghley, as Chancellor of the University, and it is evident that Bright was personally acquainted with the Chancellor and his family. He praises the learning of Lady Burghley, and likens the “ domus Ceciliana ” itself to a University. “ Cecil himself,” he declares, “ has paid so much atten- tion to medicine that in the knowledge of the faculty he may almost be compared with the professors of the art.” Beloe maintains that this work of Bright’s alone “ entitles the author to a respectable place in the Bio- graphia of our country, where, however, his name does not appear.” The part on poisons, where the flesh of the chameleon, the newt, and the crocodile is treated as three several varieties of poison, each requiring a peculiar remedy, has been cited as a fair specimen of its merit. The copy of Hygieina in the British Museum, it is worthy of note, bears the autograph of the founder of the Harleian Library, “ Humfredus Wanley ” ; while that in the library of Cambridge University belonged to Dr. Thomas Lorkin, Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge from 1564 to 1591, who, with Bright, lived in the parish of Great St. Mary. Both Hygieina and Therapeut.ca were reprinted in one volume at Frankfort- on-Main in 1588-89 and 1598, and again at Mayence in 1647, “ cui accesserunt de Stndiosorum sanitate libri III. Marsilii Ficini.” The publication of these Continental editions insured the dissemination of the work among the learned of all nations. About this time Cambridge regained the right to