[262] The Materia Medica of Mesua, dating from the eleventh century, was used by the London College of Physicians in framing their Pharmacopœia in 1618.
[263] In 1443 a copy of Celsus was found at Milan; Paulus Ægineta was discovered a little later.
[264] Opera, tom. ix. p. 1.
[265] De Immortalitate Animorum (Lyons, 1545), p. 73. De Varietate, p. 77. Opera, tom. i. p. 135.
[266] De Subtilitate, p. 445.
[267] "Galen's great complaint against the Peripatetics or Aristotelians, was that while they discoursed about Anatomy they could not dissect. He met an argument with a dissection or an experiment. Come and see for yourselves, was his constant cry."—Harveian Oration, Dr. J.F. Payne, 1896.
[268] Opera, tom. x. p. 462.
[269] De Vita Propria, ch. xxviii. p. 73.
[270] Ibid., ch. xxiii. p. 64.
[271] De Utilitate, p. 309. He also writes at length in the Proxenata on Domestic Economy.—Chapter xxxvii. et seq. Opera, tom. i. p. 377.