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.

Date:
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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    fklucia est: quse si me non frustrabitur, et litterarium hoc munusculum lasta fronte accipies: non mihi mod 6 majora quas premo edendi animum addideris, sed etiam alios ex tuis ad multa qum te et sseculum fortasse tuum illustrent, scribenda excitabis. Diu vivas precor Regum splendor, et saeculi tui decus. Londini xvi. Calen. Quintiles. Anno salutis Christiame M.D.xvij. IV. {Page 213.) [Prefixed in MS. to tlie presentation copy on vellum of the translation of Galen De Sanitate tuendH, in the British Museum. Printed at Paris by Rubeus in 1517.] Revevendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, Domino Thomas, divina providentia Tituli Sanctas Ceciliae Pres- bytero Cardinali, Archiepiscopo Eboracensi, Apostolicae sedis Legato, Anglise Primati et Cancellario: Thomas Linacrus Medicus debitam observantiam. Quas proximo lucubrationes meas Clarissimo Regi nostro dedicavi, earum, Reverendissime Pater, exemplum nunc ad te mitto. Quo turn quoque sanitati pro virili, secundum illius, consulam. Id quod optimo jure me facere existimo, cum tu ejus tranquillati, serenatatique ita consulis ne (quod indignissimum alioqui sit,) curae ullas sanitatem ejus possint convellere. Utinamque ipse per immensas occupationes tuas lucubrationes has posses perlegere. Invenies (nisi me nimium amor operis fallit) quod nonnihil ex stomacho tuo evocet. Qui pro singulari eruditione tua, non protinus quidlibet, sed tantum quod solida ratio munivit, adrnittis. Ilic autem nihil est gratis (ut aiunt) dictum. Sed omnia, partlm certa methodo inventa, partlm firmissimis rationibus