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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    terit. Quatuordecim enim libros de methodo medendi, de sanitate tuenda sex, de naturali facultate tres, de tern- peramentis tres, de inaequali temperie unum, de usu pul- suum unum, cum his de symptomatis summi sui ingenii fcetura, tam Latino vertit, ut non melius aut elegantius Greece eos olim Galenus scripserit. Multa item alia a se versa reliquit, quee, quod ante obitum non erant edita, verendum est ne in studiosorum nunquam exeant. Gram- maticam verb absolutissimam paulo ante mortem calco- graphis excudendam commiserat. In quibus ut ceeteris omnibus satisfaciebat, ita sibi fere nusquam, utpote qui per valetudinem, qua multis annis parum fuit prospera, otium illud literis dicatum vel minutatim concidere cogeba- tur. Ex hujus hominis interitu res medica tantam jac- turam passa est, ut suo jam patrono vidua prope elangues- cat, et periclitetur. Bene precamini, studiosi lectores, animee hujus de re literaria tam bene meriti, qui ad heec turn Oxonii turn Cantabrigiee suis impensis publicas lectiones medicinae studiosis perpetuo futuras, easque honorificis salariis sustinendas curavit, quo ars una generi humano maxime necessaria, jamdiu prope extincta, veterem ilium suurn nitorem resumat et assequatur. Vale. XIII. (Page 232.) [Rudiraenta Gramraatices Thorn® Linacri diligenter castigata denuo. Im- press. Londini in ®dibus Pynsonianis. Cum privilegio a rege indulto.] Ulustrissimee Mariae, Invictissimi Angliee Franciaeque Regis ac Fidei Defensoris filiee, Cornubiee et Walliee Principi: Thomas Linacrus, Medicus, cum omni observanti&, S. D. Quum tibi, illustrissima Maria, datus ab invictissimo