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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    APPENDIX. III. (Page 208.) [Gnleiu (1g S nni tutc luenilu Libil sex Thotnll Linacro Anglo Xnlcrprelc. Parisiis per Guilelraum Rubeura Typogrnpbum, si.d.xvii.] Invictissimo illustrissimoque Henrico octavo Anglia; regi, domino Hibernia;, ac Wallise Cornubiseque principi, Thomas Linacrus, Medicus suus, salutem plurimam dicit. Cum multi tibi quotidie, Henrice regum clarissime, splendore gloriaque nominis tui allecti; multa quae te varie oblectent, certatim afferant: alius generosos equos, alius insignes canes, alius aurum argentumve; sed quorum ingenii cujuspiam opus materiam superet: ego cum ejus- modi facultatibus minime abundem, nihil vel officio meo vel professione dignius inveni, quam ut tibi studiorum meorum monumentum aliquod dicarem. Quo fieret ut simul otii quod per indulgentiam tuam a justo tibi minis- terio aliquandb suffuror, ratio tibi constet, simul intelligas me non modo horis iis quibus te praesens fruor; sed etiam reliquis omnibus id pro viribus moliri, quod tibi aliquandb gratum fore existimem. Delegi igitur potissimiim ex iis quse nuper verti Galeni opus quod De Sanitate tuenda inscribitur, opus scilicet vel authoris merito, vel suo prae- stantissimum. Quippe author ipse tantus in omni medendi arte fuit, ut non immeritb turn patriam suam nobilitarit, turn seculum illustrarit: qui summis alioqui viris, qui ante eum vel condidisse artem vel plurimum auxisse sunt visi, omnibus plane, cum ab Hippocrate discesseris, umbram sui nominis claritate induxit: atque hunc ipsum solus nobis sua partiin interpretatione, partim commendatione servavit. Qui, nisi hujus fusa jucundaque claritas suppetias tulisset, ut minime a nobis intcllectus, ita plant) fuisset neglectus.