Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert of England)
A Study of English Medicine in the Thirteenth Century.
By H.E. Handerson, A.M., M.D.
CLEVELAND
"Nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how the present came to be what it is."—Stubbs—Constitutional Hist. of England.
Among the literary monuments of early English medicine the "Compendium Medicinae" of Gilbertus Anglicus merits a prominent position as the earliest complete treatise on general medicine by an English author which has been preserved to our day, and equally because it forms in itself a very complete mirror of the medical science of its age and its country.