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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    sic asserta, ut mille circiter, et trecentis annis (tot enim sunt ex quo author vixit,) nihil a quoque in his sit refutatum. Sed sive tu eas releges, acerrimoque judicio tuo perpendes, sive is qui pro tua sanitate tuenda noctes diesque vigilare pro officio debet; facilb deprehendi ex ipsis poterit, quibus rebus utens, quibusque abstinens, non tutissimus modb a morbis sis, sed etiam senectutem tuam longissime differas. Cum interim nec illud operae pretium esse non possit, quod ex his commentariis, priscorum quoque victus omnis ratio intelligetur. Quae si cui minus fortasse probabitur, quod videlicet a nostra nonnihil dissidet; is meminisse debebit, eorum hanc calculo fuisse comprobatam, quorum hactenus sapientiam in omni reliqua vitae parte nunquam satis mira- mur. Quo magis hanc nostram potius suspectam habere decet, propterea quod ab ilia tme aliena. Vale. y. (Page 213.) [From a MS. copy inserted in the edition of the translation of Galen De Sanitate tuenda, printed at Paris by Rubeus, 1517, in the library .of the College of Physicians in London.] Reverendo in Christo Patri et Domino, Domino Ricliardo, divina providentia Wyntoniensi Episcopo, Thomas Li- nacrus Medicus salutem plurimam dicit. Cilm tu, Praesul amplissime, ita studiis consulis, ut cor- poris quidem alimenta non exiguo studiosorum numero dcesse non possint, animi vero etiam toti gymnasio abun- dent; quorum sicuti priore nulli usque nostratium, quos simile studium habuit, cedis; ita secundb plane onmes qui hactends fere superas: neminem arbitror Anglia prai- erthn nominis studiosiorum esse, qui se frugiferum aliquid