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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    XVII. (Page 298.) [History of St. Paul’s in London, by William Dugdale, 1657, p. 56.] Epitaphium Thomae Linacri in Ecclesia Cathedrali Divi Pauli, Lond. Juxta Boreale ostium, super laminam aenearn, muro affixam. Thomas Lynacrus, Regis Henrici VIII. medicus; vir Graece et Latin&, atque in re medica longci eruditissimus : Multos aetate sua languentes, et qui jam animam despon- derant, vitae restituit: Multa Galeni opera in Latinam lin- guam, mira et singulari facundia vertit: Egregium opus de emendata structura Latini sermonis, amicorum rogatu, paulo ante mortem edidit. Medicinae studiosis Oxoniae publicas lectiones duas, Cantabrigiae unam, in perpetuum stabilivit. In hac urbe Collegium Medicorum fieri sua industria curavit, cujus et Praesidens proximus electus est. Fraudes dolosque mire perosus ; fidus amicis; omnibus ordinibus juxta clarus: aliquot annos antequam obieret Presbyter factus. Plenus annis ex hac vita migravit, mul- tdm desideratus, Anno Domini 1524, die 20 Octobris. Vivit post funera virtus. Thomae Linacro, clarissimo Medico, Johannes Caius posuit, anno 1557. XVIII. [Opuscula Medica, iterum edita, Auctore Georgio Baker, Serenissimaj Re- gince Charlotta; Medico Ordinario. Londini, 1771, p. 157.] Oratio ex Harveii instituto habita in Theatro Collegii Regii Medicorum, Londin. 1761. Atque ut inde dicendo proficiscamur, unde oritur