Lecture memoranda, Canadian Medical Association Meeting, 1905, Halifax, N.S. : [and] Oxford medical lore.
- Burroughs Wellcome & Company
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: Lecture memoranda, Canadian Medical Association Meeting, 1905, Halifax, N.S. : [and] Oxford medical lore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![extensive gardens in the cool of the evening, and listened to discussions on the work of Dioscorides, or arguments respecting the virtues and medicinal uses of the plants that grew around. During his stay in Italy, Linacre visited Venice and Padua. At the former city he made the acquaintance of the great printer, Aldus Manutius, and at the latter place he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and probably spent some time in medical study. He returned to England, laden with books which he had either bought or transcribed, and again settled at Oxford. Soon after his return he was incorporated Oxford l° M.D. on his Padua degree, and delivered public lectures on physic in the University. About the year 1500, he was called to Court to receive from Henry VI the appointment of tutor and medical adviser to the young Prince Arthur of Wales. Soon after the accession of Henry VIII in 1509, Linacre was made one of the King’s physicians, with a salary of ^50 a year. Entering holy orders shortly afterwards, he became eligible for different ecclesiastical benefices which he held in rapid succession. The foundation of the College of Physicians was mainly due to his college of efforts, and he became the first president, and Physicians remajnect jn that 0ffice till his death. The first meetings of this body were held at his house in Knightrider Street, of which he conveyed a portion to the college during his life time, and also presented to it his medical library. As a physician, his skill was acknowledged in the highest quarters, and he ranks with the most distin- . guished scholars of his time. Between the years physician 1517 and 1524, besides many other works, he and author pUb]jsiie(i translations into Latin of five medical treatises by Galen, which, according to Erasmus, were more valuable than the originals. In the time of Henry VIII, owing to the extinction compulsory and ruin of many church preferments, and the Examination unsettled condition of the religious bodies, a large number of divinity students commenced to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877864_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
