Science And Medieval Thought the Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal Co
Science And Medieval Thought the Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal Co
T Clifford Thomas Clifford Allbutt
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A. 5 66 sciences had scarcely found breathing-time, and no sure establishment 1 . Cassiodorus is said to have directed the Benedictines of the sixth century to read Cselius Aurelianus, a Roman adaptor of Soranus of Ephesus ; but medical lore consisted of little beyond some relics of the Roman schools, handed on in prose or verse compilations which the teacher read to his class, and explained so far as he could. It seems that medicine was not taught formally until so ordered, in 805, by CKarlema...gne ; probably by the advice of Alcuin, the founder of the learned tradition at Fulda, the founder, we may almost say, of the neo-latin period, and some time headmaster of my own school of St Peter at York. The influence of the School of Salerno, relatively excellent as it was in the domains 1 See Baas, Geschichtliche Entwickelung des arztlichen Standes, 1896, p. 128. Charlemagne journeyed in Italy where some schools still existed, and where Priscian, Donatus, Boetius, Cassiodorus, Augustine, even Virgil and Cicero were read ; thence he called teachers to his palace schools ; and to Lyons, Orleans or Tours.
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