The life of Thomas Linacre, Doctor in medicine, physician to King Henry VIII, the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the Royal College of Physicians : With memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, ... from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

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1835
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    which Linacre was compelled to mjike in conse- quence of his disease, were many and great, and commenced at that period of life when the facul- ties and attainments of man are in full maturity and best adapted to the discharge of the active duties of life. It frequently obliged him to forego the emoluments of his profession ; by it also his multd pluris cupiam.—Ex Londino, v. Feb. ann. 1512.”—Epist. Lvgd. Bat. 1706, Pars. I. p. 117, Ep. cxxxiv. From the same correspondence I am enabled to give a solitary specimen of Linacre’s practice, which was attended with success in resolving a nephritic paroxysm. The principle of action of the remedy is obvious. “ Calculus e potu cerevisiae conceptus haeserat in sinu quopiam sex hebdomadas; interim non urgebat quidem dolor, sed ipsa natura solicita ac dejecta monebat subesse magnum periculum. Remedium non prius scies, quam indicem aucto- rem. Is erat Thomas Linacrus:—Accersitus pharmacopola: decoctum in cubiculo meo pharmacum; admotum ipso praesente medico. Bis admotum fuerat, et mox a somno sum enixus cal- culum parem nucleo amygdalino. Hujus remedii vice, Germani utuntur balneis. Verum hoc quurn idem efficiat, multo para- bilius est. Camamillos [chamaemelon] ac petroselinum involvo linteo, decoquo in vase puro, aquil mundd, fervore usque ad dimi- dium: linteum ut est fervens, eximo ex olla et humore celeriter quantum potest expresso, admoveo lateri. Si fervor est into- lerabilis, sacculum in quo sunt herbae, obvolvo linteo sicco, sic ut velut ansis hinc atque hinc teneri possit. Et si initio latus non fert contactum obfervorem, suspendo supra locum, ut vapor efficiat corpus, donee fervor coeperit esse tolerabilis. Mox compono me ad somnum, post quern si recrudescat dolor, refer- vefactum linteum admoveo. Id a me nunquam bis factum est, quin calculus descenderit ad loca vicina vesicae, in quibus dolor est mitior. Id tamen praesidium fefellit me primum in proximo nixu.’ —Erasmus ad Bilibaldum Pcrk/ieimeruin—Matlaire Annal. Typograph. tom. ii. p. 661.