[182] Gilberti Anglici Compendium Medicinae, tam morborum universalium quam particularium, non solum medicis sed et chyrurgicis utilissimum. Vienna, 1510.
[183] Eloy’s Dictionnaire Historique de Medecine, Ancienne et Moderne, 1778, tome ii. p. 349. Aitkin’s Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain, 1780, p. ix.
[184] Freind’s History of Medicine, 5th edition, vol. ii. p. 268.
[185] Compendium Medicinæ (ut supra), p. 340.
[186] Nosologia Methodica, tome v. p. 229. Before citing Gilbert’s description, Sauvages observes, “Plures hujus morbi (Elephantiasis) varietates sunt quarum nomina et signa ex Gilberto Anglo mutuabimur, loco Leprae Elephantiasin nominando.”
[187] Memoires de Medecine et de Physique Medicale tirés des Registres de la Societé Royale de Medecine, Années 1782-83, p. 200. Speaking of the Greek elephantiasis, or elephantiasis legitima of Sauvages, they observe “on ne trouvoit nulle part, pas même dans Arétée de Cappadoce, une exposition plus claire que celle qui a été donnée par Gilbert, Medecin Anglois du seizieme (?) siecle.”
[188] Sprengel’s Histoire de la Medecine (Jourdain’s translation). Tome ii. p. 404.
[189] Anthony Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses, p. 87.
[190] Wood gives his name as entered in an old College Catalogue in 1320. He compiled his book between 1305 and 1317: Freind, vol. ii. p. 277; and Eloy, vol. ii. p. 287. See also Hutchison’s Biographia Medica, vol. i. p. 323; and Aitkin’s Biographical Memoirs, p. ix, etc.
[191] Guy de Chauliac entitles Gaddesden’s book (probably with more truth) “una fatua Rosa Anglica.”