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It must not be supposed, however, that these 

 pompous pedants had it all their own way, and that 

 Medicine was not better justified of her children. 

 It is full of interest for our present purpose to 

 read in the preface by Thomas Junta to the 

 Edition of Averroes (1552), " Plerique omnes 

 juniores medici jam intolerable in Arabum Mauri- 

 taniorumque dogmata odium conceperunt, ut ne 

 nominandi citandive locus relinquatur ; principes 

 etiam Hippocratem atque Galenum habere nos 

 prsedicant." This enlightenment seems to have 

 come about in some part through the teaching of 

 Thoma3us Nicolaus Leonicus 1 , who began to lecture, 

 for the first time, from the Greek text of Aristotle 

 (there were chairs thenceforth for both the Arabian 

 and the Greek Aristotle) in 1497. 



the elegant humanity of Linacre has too often prevailed in this 

 College rather than Harvey's strenuous control of tradition and 

 rhetoric by more positive conceptions, and of all conceptions 

 by direct experimental verification. 



1 Niccolo Leonico (I give his Latin name in the text as 

 Ueberweg gives it) seems to have been a spirited and effective 

 philosophical lecturer of Hellenist and critical qualities, and 

 of much charm both of style and character. He is not to be 

 confounded with his elder contemporary, Nicolaus Leonicenus, 

 of Vicenza and Ferrara, professor of medicine and an elegant 

 latiner, who translated the aphorisms of Hippocrates ; and 

 whose friend Linacre, in translating parts of Galen, did a like 

 service to medicine and letters in England. 



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