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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    VII. {Page 218.) [Prefixed in MS. to the illuminated presentation copy on vellum of Linacre’s translation of Galeni Methodus medendi vel De Morbis curandis. Printed at Paris by Desiderius Malieu, 1519, and now in the British Museum.] Revevendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino, Domino Thomae, diving miseratione tituli Sanctae Ceciliae Sacro- sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Presbitero Cardinali, Ebora- censi Archiepiscopo, et Apostolicae Sedis etiam de Latere Legato, regni Angliae Primati, et ejusdem regni Can- cellario. Ex iis, Pater mihi omnium Reverendissime meritoque observandissime, quae vel modo vel prius ad publicam uti- litatem lucubravi, atque ad Invictissimum Principem de- dicavi, nullum profecto majorem ulla me unquam ex parte fructum percepturum censeo, quam si ea tuae aliquando saluti ex usu esse intelligam. Cujus mea profecto senten- tia, nulli qui Principi ipsi consultum velit, non maxima habenda est cura. Quippe cbm is sis, qui infinitis tuis vigiliis, ita omnes ejus in republica partes obis atque imples, ut ille corporis sui sanitati vacare securus possit. Qui externis quidem regni ejus negotiis ea prudentia mo- deraris, ut illi cum exteris principibus undique sit amicitia et pax. Internas vero ejus regni res ea turn justitia turn aequitate administras, ut, cum nec potentioribus inferiores premere permittas, nec inferioribus suo officio non defungi, publicae summa sit tranquillitatis. Nec verb domesticis ejus curis, non aliquam sollicitudinis tuae partem impendis, cbm tua opera nunquam eae nec splendidiores nec magni- licentiores, idque nullo Principis taedio, sint visas. Sed et aliae nec paucae, nec hoe mediocres causai sunt, qute meritb optimum quenque sollicitum de tua salute reddant (liccbit