[42] Disceptatio Apologetica pro Astrologia. I have searched the libraries of London in vain for either of these Treatises of Servetus. That the one addressed to Fuchs once existed among us, however, is certain; for its title is to be seen in the catalogue of Dr. Williams’s Library (Grafton Street, University College); but unfortunately the work is not now to be found—it had disappeared before the present Librarian, Dr. Hunter, came into office. Mosheim went so far as to maintain that the Defence of Champier was a myth (Versuch, &c., einer Ketzergeschichte, S. 72), and Dr. de Murr, though he did not question its existence, never saw it. (In Bibliothecas Hallerianas additamenta, 4to. Helmst.) The Rev. Henri Tollin of Magdeburg has been more fortunate; for he has not only seen but actually possesses copies of both the Apologetic defences, as well as a copy of the pamphlet against the Parisian Doctors, if I understand him aright. In a letter with which I was lately favoured, he informs me that he intends to publish the more interesting passages from the Defence of Champier, and the entire Tract on Judicial Astrology.
[43] ‘Qua in re auxiliarios habui, primum Andreum Vesalium, juvenem Mehercule! in Anatome diligentissimum; post hunc, Michael Villanovanus familiariter mihi in consectionibus adhibitus est, vir omni genere literarum ornatissimus, in Galeni doctrina vix ulli secundus. Horum duorum præsidio atque opera, tum artuum, tum aliarum partium exteriorum, musculos omnes, venas, arterias et nervos in ipsis corporibus examinavi studiosisque ostendi.’ Io. Guinteri Institutionum Anatomicarum, Lib. iv., 4to. Basil, 1539.
[44] The reader who is curious on this matter will find what I believe to be the first representation of the anatomist engaged in dissecting the human body in the Fasciculus Medicinæ of Io. à Ketham, fol. Venet. 1495, of which there is a copy in fine preservation in the library of the Royal College of Surgeons.
[45] Syruporum universa Ratio ad Galeni censuram diligenter exposita; cui, post integram de Concoctione disceptationem, præscripta est vera purgandi methodus, cum expositione Aphorismi: Concocta medicari.
Michaele Villanovano Authore.
Πρὸς τὸν φιλιατρον. εύροα ποιήσον τατεσώματα
τατεπεπανων Ωμὰ Χυμων, ταυτης δογματα ἴσθι βιθλιου.
Parisiis
ex officino Simonis Colinæi. [1537].
[46] Syr. Universa Ratio, fol. 9.
[47] Doubtless the Disceptatio Apologetica pro Astrologia.
[48] See Landseer’s Sabæan Researches, 4to. London.