The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves.

  • Johnson, John Noble, 1787-1823.
Date:
1835
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Credit: The life of Thomas Linacre : Doctor of Medicine, physician to King Henry VIII; the tutor and friend of Sir Thomas More, and the founder of the college of physicians in London : with memoirs of his contemporaries, and of the rise and progress of learning, more particularly of the schools from the ninth to the sixteenth century inclusive / by John Noble Johnson ; edited by Robert Graves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    PREFACE. The individual, the particulars of whose life are detailed in the following pages, was amongst the earliest of his countrymen to whom learning owed its revival and propa- gation in the fifteenth century. To his labours England more especially stands indebted for her knowledge of the finest language of antiquity; and medicine, its elevation to that rank amongst the liberal arts, from which it had long been estranged by the ignorance or cupidity of its professors. Materials for the execution of a task like the present can seldom be obtained without much unprofitable labour; but in the col- lection of materials for this undertaking, the result has more rarely corresponded with the difficulties which attended the search. The information, which private stores promised, has not been neglected. The archives of the