38 MEMOIR OF GESNER. 



since by authors who have neglected to mention the 

 source from which they derived them. 



Medical men have often expressed their regret 

 that the portion of the Bib. Universalis relating to 

 the literature of the healing art was never com- 

 pleted; the materials which Gesner had amassed 

 were certainly extensive (he expressly affirms so in 

 a letter to one of his friends), and their publication 

 would have been desirable, even although they fell 

 short of his own wishes. This desideratum, how- 

 ever, was to a certain extent supplied by the publi- 

 cation, in 1555, of a large volume entitled, " De 

 Chirurgia Scriptores optimi quique veteres et recen- 

 tiores, plerique in Germania ante hac non editi, 

 nunc a Conr. Gesnero in unum conjuncti volumen," 

 to which various treatises on medical subjects are 

 appended. Many small treatises on medical sub- 

 jects emanated at different times from his prolific 

 pen. He published more than one edition of Ga- 

 len ; that of the date 1562 was enriched with pro- 

 legomena, an elaborate life of Galen, and a very 

 full list of the authors who had in any way illus- 

 trated his doctrines. With a view to induce medical 

 men to co-operate with each other, and communi- 

 cate their discoveries for the general good, he pub- 

 lished, in 1552, what he called " Thesaurus de 

 remediis secretis," &c. This at first appeared under 

 the fictitious name of Euonymus ; but it came into 

 great request, and was afterwards laid before the 

 public in an enlarged and amended form, with the 

 name of the author attached. " Libelli tres medi- 



