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.

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    ex studiis prompturum speret, qui tibi ejus aliquid non quasi justum debeat, quo tibi dum se non ingratum probet. Sanctissimum pientissimumque hoc tuum institutum magis magisque tibi commendet. Ego certe quae lucubravi turn hoc communi nomine debere tibi me censeo, turn illo privato quod sanitati turn (cui literati omnes bene precari debent,) nonnihil his consuluero. Mitto igitur ad te hoc codice, sex Galeni de tuenda Sanitate libros, quos proxime ut potui Latinos feci. Optaremque lectione tua dignos, nisi id omnino vota superaret. Nunc agi mecum prseclare putabo, si a Doctorum, quos in contubernio tecum habes, lectione non abhorrebunt: si enim (nisi falloi’) multa in his depre- hen dent, quibus si usus fueris non sanitate modo magis integra, veriim etiam longiore vita ad ea perficienda, quae magnified simul et summa cum pietate cepisti, fruere. Quod ut tibi feliciter contingat, ipse certe adeb Optimo Maximo omnibus votis fere contendere non desino. Vale Antistes humanissime, et gravissime. VI. (Page 214.) [Galeni Metliodus medendi, vcl de Morbis curandis, Tliorna Linacro Anglo interprete, Libri Quatuordecira. Sumptu Godefridi Hiltorpii Spectata Fide Mercatoria, apud Desideriuni Malieu. Paris. Folio. 1519.] Invictissimo Illustrissimoque Henrico octavo Anglise regi, domino Hyberniae, ac Walliae Cornubiaeque principi, Thomas Linacrus, Medicus suus, S. P. D. Iterum jam Majestatem tuam, Henrice Regum clarissime, cogor exorare, ut ex inclyti nominis tui pnefatione lucubra- tionibus meis favoris aliquid conciliem. Quas enim ad te nunc affero, tantb profectb magis quam priores patrocinium