[153] Dr. Norman Moore has printed the Cottonian MS. Life of Rahere in the Bartholomew Hospital Reports, vol. xxi., and copious extracts from the MS. had previously been given by Mr. J. Saunders in his articles on St. Bartholomew’s in Knight’s London, vol. ii.
[154] Progress of Medicine, 1888, p. 21.
[155] These documents are printed in the Appendix to Memoranda relating to the Royal Hospitals of London, 1836, pp. 1-49.
[156] Reprinted in Dr. Furnivall’s edition of Thomas Vicary’s Anatomie of the Bodie of Man, E. E. T. S., 1888, pp. 289-336.
[157] ‘The Physicians and Surgeons of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital before the time of Harvey,’ St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Reports, vol. xviii., 1882, pp. 333-338.
[158] ‘The Serjeant-Surgeons of England and their Office,’ by D’Arcy Power (British Medical Journal, 1900, vol. i. p. 583).
[159] The manuscript is dated 1392, but the handwriting of the copy used by Dr. Payne is of a much later date. Dr. Payne says that the Anatomy of Vicary is absolutely that of the fourteenth century, without any correction or addition to bring it up to the standard of his own day, ‘On an unpublished English Anatomical Treatise of the fourteenth century, and its relation to the Anatomy of Thomas Vicary’ (British Medical Journal, 25th January 1896, p. 208).
[160] A History of Epidemics in Britain, by Charles Creighton, M.D., 1891, vol. i. pp. 97, 98.
[161] Ibid., p. 106.
[162] Creighton, vol. i. p. 97.