An essay on the history of medicine in Ireland / [Norman Moore].

  • Moore, Norman, 1847-1922.
Date:
1910
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    This is to be understood that we intended, by the grace of God, tour long works from this on account of this work, and then would this be the work of a perfect master. And a little book on the regimen of acute diseases, and a book on the crisis, and on the critical days, and a book of which the title should be a table of the intellects, and a book about graduation; and without these nothing is done. The first printed edition of Bernard is that in folio of F. de Tuppo, Naples, 1480. The Irish MS. differs from this, the only precedent edition, and is therefore a translation from some MS. once extant in Ireland. Among the MSS. are translations of some of his other works, which will be mentioned in their places. Enough has been said to show that Bernard de Gordon deserved his reputation. He was versed in all the medical books of the age. If his observant glance was sometimes obscured by the hypo- theses engrained in his mind, one may be sure, from the way in which he speaks of his art and of his patients, that though his skill was often unable to determine or cure the disease, he never came to a sick bed without bringing comfort to the sufferer in his kind words and manner. John of Gaddesden was a contemporaray of Bernard. They are celebrated in the same line of Chaucer, and a perusal of the “ Rosa Anglica” shows that it is a flower grown in the same Hortus medicus as the “ Lilium Medicinae.” Part of the Rosa Anglica de Regimine Sani- tatis begins in one MS. (Harley 546), but it is only continued for a few lines. In another MS. (Add. 15, 582) this section is translated at length.