The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HO Tin-: LIVE or misrortunes, tliey attributed that to chagrin, which mx^ really caused by a ])estilcntial disease, with which he was suddenly afflicted.* Politian and Picus forwarded to him the sovereign remedy, a bezoar, inclosed in a vase of agate, or according to Crinitus an antidote, composed of the oil of scorpions and the tongues of asps, which modern practitioners will judge these friends might have spared themselves the trouble of sending, and the patient the necessity of taking. This testimony of regard, however, arrived too late to put its effi- cacy to the test. He fell prematurely, and his panegyrists, whilst they exercised their ingenuity in proclaiming the little connection, which existed between his manners and his name, did justice to the qualifications and to the virtues by which his life vyas uniformly distinguished. In comparing the life and character of Linacre with, those of the individual, whose private habits *jl?jqti-i^ Crinitus de flonesti Disciplipa, lib,, i^i bap. 7, jVifl- centius Parayjcinus, a retailer of anecdotes relating to great men, represents him as abandoned by his friencls'durmg his last ilhiess, and his body conveyed to some unknown spot, deprived of, funeral honours and of a Christian burial.—»S'w^^M/«na de Viris EriuUtione claris, Basil, 1713, Cent. ii. xxiv. This story is probably borrowed from Jo. Pieritis Valerian us de Littcratorum Lifelicitafe, Venet. 1G20, lib. p. 9. Jovius (Elog. xxxvi), with better means of information, and with more probability, describes him as buried at Rome, with the usual forms, near the Porta Flumentana, the modern Porta del Popolo, which ac- cords with the Athenasum Romanum Oldoeni, where his sepul- ture is assigned to the church of S. Maria del Popolo.