The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Books became more numerous and the authors quoted in any treatise on medicine, such as the Compendium of Gilbertus Anglicus, the Rosa Anglica of John of Gaddesden, the Lilium Medicine of Bernard of Gordon or the Breviarium Bartholomei of John Mirfeld, show how much reading a physician went through. It is clear that experience of patients would now and then break in and enlighten him, but his formal studies began and ended with books and learning things at the bedside was no com¬ pulsory part of his education. The history of Gilbertus Anglicus is obscure (Dr J. F. Payne was working at it shortly before his death), John of Gaddesden certainly practised in London, while John Mirfeld lived in the Augustinian Priory of St Bartholomew in Smithfield. Though for the most part isolated so far as their profession was concerned, physicians