Download or read book John of Gaddesden and the Rosa Medicinae (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Patrick Cholmeley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John of Gaddesden and the Rosa Medicinae This study is an attempt to give some account of one who was, so far as is known, the first Englishman who was Court physician to an English monarch, and of his chief work, the Rosa Anglica, as it is generally called, though the name which he himself gave it was the Rosa Medicinae. The materials for an essay dealing with medical matters in England, or indeed in Europe during the fourteenth century, are but scanty as compared with the accounts of medicine, medical studies, and medical men which we possess belonging to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the admirable Fitz Patrick Lectures of Dr. J. F. Payne and Dr. Norman Moore have already made English readers acquainted with the English medical men of that period. In the section dealing with the general estimation in which medical men were held during mediaeval times I have had to consult works written so far back as the twelfth century, but with the exception of Guy de Chauliac, who was ahead of his times in surgery, the medical art progressed but little between 1150 and the date of Vesalius. Indeed, if we can believe Moliere, the physicians of his time were of much the same kidney as those so amusingly satirized by John of Salisbury in about the year 1180. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."