30 MEMOIR OF RONDELET. 



ments of the Montpellier school. As a public 

 testimony of the estimation in which they held him, 

 and from a sense of gratitude for the benefits which 

 had accrued to the university from his exertions, 

 the authorities caused the following inscription to be 

 placed on the front of the Schools of Medicine: 

 " Gul. Rondeletius Montispel. ingenii foecunditate 

 et Doctrinse uberitate toto orbe Clariss. Universi- 

 tatis Medicinae xxi. annis Professor Regius, x. annis 

 Cancellarius digniss. post diuturnam in docendo et 

 scribendo navatam sedulo operam, et edita rarae eru- 

 ditionis non pauca monumenta, pluribus ex Codicillo 

 ad recognoscendum creditis fidei Laur. Jouberti in 

 Regia Profess, successoris sui, Tolosa rediens obiit 

 in Regali Monte an. D. 1566, die 30 mensis Julii. 

 Vixit ann. 58, mens. 10, dies 4. Laurentius Jou- 

 bertus Cane ell. Praecept. Chariss. D. S. M. II. P. C." 

 Rondelet has left a considerable number of trea- 

 tises on medical subjects, but they cannot be regarded 

 as of much value in the present day, otherwise than 

 in relation to the general history of the progress of 

 knowledge in this department. Indeed, it may be 

 affirmed generally respecting them, that they are not 

 of such a high character as might have been ex- 

 pected from an individual so celebrated. It is stated, 

 as a means of accounting for this fact, that he 

 wrote very hastily, and never took the trouble to 

 revise and correct his compositions. It is likewise 

 well known that several of them were published 

 without his knowledge or concurrence, a circum- 

 stance to which many of their imperfections may 



