Account of the life and works of Maister Peter Lowe : the founder of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow / by James Finlayson.

  • James Finlayson
Date:
1889
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    “ Petrus Lowae, Scotus, Arellianus, (quod vocabulum non satis video quid valeat, nisi forte significet Auctorem hunc oriundum esse ex urbe Ay re, quas Caput est Comitatus cognominis in Scotia), se ipse vocat Doctorem in Facili- tate Chirurgice Farisiensi, arroganter sane, ne dicam inepte,1 cum nulla sit Lutetiae Parisiorum, fueritve unquam Facnltas Chirurgice, sed Communitas tantum Magistrorum Chirurgorum: Communitasque ilia Doctores nullos creet, creaveritve olim, sed Juratos tantum Magistros Chirurgice, ut in ceteris Europas Civitatibus solenne est. Ceterum Auctor ipse narrat in Prasfatione Chirurgice suae anglice scriptae, et editce anno 1612, in 4, se Chirurgiam exercuisse annos 22 in Flandria, Gallia et alibi: Se chirurgum ut aiunt, majorem fuisse annis duobus Legionis Plispanae, quae Lutetiae in praesidio collocata erat, scilicet annis 1588 & 1589,2 3 cum Urbsa perduellibus teneretur, qui nomine sacri foederis, vulgo La Sainte Ligue, adversus Regem suum rebellaverant: Se deinde Hen- rici iv. Galliarum Regis Chirurgum ordinarium fuisse annos sex, nempe ab anno 1590 ad annum usque 1596, quo Londinum venit, ubi Librum edidit, de quo mox. Jamvero, quo tempore in Scotiam redierit incertum, sed certum tantum ex Praefatione modo laudata Glosgoviae, in Scotia ilium commoratum fuisse anno 1612, quo Chirurgiam suam edebat. Quid illi postea successerit neque scio, neque scire euro. [Here follows the title with an account of the contents of the “ Spanish Sicknes.”] “ Sed haec satis superque, ex quibus liquet huncce Chirurgum non alio con- silio scripsisse, quam ut venditaret falso antidotum nomine, 6° verbosis acquireret sibifamam strophisf iis scilicet artibus, quas a Circulatoribus adhiberi novimus, 1 In his index, p. 604, he has:—“Doctor in Facilitate Chirurgice Farisiensi : Arrogans vel potius ineptus titulus, quem sibi sumit Petrus Lowe.” 2 [Siege of Paris, 1589-90 : Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, 18th edition, London, 1885 : Art., Paris.] 3 This phrase which he prints in italics but without a reference, seems to have been a great favourite of Astruc’s. He applies it to at least three other authors summarised in this same volume (see pp. 425, 452, 501). In the last of these he gets a double value out of the pas- sage by quoting the first half at the top of the page and the second in the middle. At page 452, he gives it in due poetical form :— “ Ut venditaret fatso antidotum nomine, Et verbosis acquireret sibifamam strofhis. ” In two passages he gives the reference to Phcedrus : in one to Lib. 1, Fab. 14 : in another