The works of John Caius, M.D., second founder of Gonville and Caius college and master of the college, 1559-1573 : with a memoir of his life by John Venn ... / edited, at the request of the governing body of the college and the president and fellows of the Royal college of physicians, by E.S. Roberts, master, in commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Caius in 1910.
- John Caius
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- 1912
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Credit: The works of John Caius, M.D., second founder of Gonville and Caius college and master of the college, 1559-1573 : with a memoir of his life by John Venn ... / edited, at the request of the governing body of the college and the president and fellows of the Royal college of physicians, by E.S. Roberts, master, in commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Caius in 1910. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from the Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College. JOHN CAIUS. Suae memor juventutis, Viam indicans salutis, Portam condidit Virtutis Et Honoris proximi: His prsefixit arctam satis Januam Humilitatis, Monens intrent ne sublatis Animis discipuli. {Cannen Caianu?n.) Our great second founder, John Caius (sixteenth master, 1559-73)1 was born at Norwich, probably in the parish of St Ethelred, Oct. 6, 15 10. He was the son of Robert Caius, who died in 1532, and was buried in that parish; and of AHce Wode or Woda, who died in 1547S and was buried in the parish of St John at the Gate. His father, though a resident in Norwich, ^ These personal details are given by Cooper, and others, without authority assigned. They rest, so far as we are concerned, entirely upon the statement of Dr Tanner in his Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, who says In Ephemeridibus extraneis manu Johannis Caii sequentia annotata fuisse dicuntur; and he pro- ceeds to quote them as follows: Giovanne Caio fu nato et educato in Norvico de parenti Roberto Caio, et Aloicia Woda nell anno mdx mense Octobr. 6. Vene prima a Cantabria 12 Sept. mdxxix.... Roberto Caio morse mdxxxii; sepelito in S. Etheldreda Norvic.; Aloisia morse mdxlvii 24 April, sepelita in S. Johanna alle porte. Giovanne Caio create A.B. MDXXXII. M.A. mdxxxv. electo principali dello Hosp. Tyshwyc [Physwick] 12 Nov. mdxxxiii. collega in Coll. Gonvil. mdxxxiii 6 Dec, lection, publ. dialect, in Padoa MDXLI. doct. in nied. in Padoa mdxli. Parti de Cantabr. verso Italia mdxxxix. Ritorno verso Inghilterra mdxliv. The expression used by Tanner, and the language in which the statements are written, suggest their having appeared in some Paduan Admission register, or Italian journal. But, after enquiries most kindly made for me by Professor Ferraris of Padua, and by the learned University librarian, no confirmation can be found of this suggestion. There is in any case some difficulty to be cleared up, as the date here assigned for his mother's death was three years after he had left Padua. (All the biographers have followed Cooper in giving WodanelV as the maiden name of Caius' mother. If the reader will turn to the Italian quotation above, he will see at once how this odd blunder, to which my attention has only just been called, arose.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21465290_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
