[4]Galen: De Anatomicis Adininistrationibus. Lib. II.
[5]Celsus: De Medicina. Lib. I.
[6]Fisher: Claudius Galenus. Annals of Anatomy and Surgery, Vol. IV., page 216.
[7]Saint Basil, in his maturer years, deeply regretted that he had studied classical literature in his youth. Jerome regarded the reading of the writings of antiquity as a terrible crime. Gregory the Great declared a knowledge of grammar even for a layman to be indelicate.—Fort: Medical Economy during the Middle Ages. N. Y., 1883; pages 102, 103.
[8]Meryon: History of Medicine. London, 1861; vol. I, page 479.
[9]Adam; Vitae Germanorum Medicorum. Haidelbergae, 1620: page 224.
[10]Zwinger: Theatrum Vitae Humanae. Basileae, 1571.
[11]Vesalius: Fabrica, 1543, preface.
[12]Sylvius: Ordo et Ordinis Ratio in Legendis Hippocratis et Galeni Libris, 1539.
[13]The Collége Royal de France was founded by Francis the First. This enlightened patron of the sciences and arts recognized the merits of scientific men and rewarded them with his money and his friendship. He established the Collége de France with twelve richly-endowed professorships, one of which was devoted to medicine. The lectures were free to all who desired to attend. The first incumbent of the chair of medicine was Vidus Vidius, Guido Guidi, of Florence, who filled this position from 1542 to 1548. Such success followed his labors that, on his return to Italy, his experience in Paris was the subject of this witticism: Vidus venit, Vidius vidit, Vidus vicit.