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medica 1 , was formally established in Padua 2 , to be 

 pursued in Heidelberg, Ley den, and Vienna. Thus 

 was the study "De rerum natura juxta propria 

 principia " unfolded, and the " Ci vitas Dei " gave 

 place to the " Regnum Hominis." 



The " Regnum Hominis " ! Yet when I look, 

 from a respectful distance, upon the folios of the 

 schoolmen, monuments, I am told, as empty as the 

 Pyramids of Egypt, my mind turns back to the 



1 The Consilia medica, or Consultations, were published 

 records, either of particular cases or of diseases in a more 

 general sense, which seem to have been instituted by Thad- 

 dseus of Florence in the thirteenth century, were abundant in 

 the fifteenth, and were continued into the sixteenth, and even 

 later. In the fifteenth century these records have a con- 

 siderable historical value, and no little clinical interest, as 

 the questions to the patient and the records of symptoms are 

 often orderly and graphic, and enable the modern reader 

 to revise the diagnoses, many of them grotesque enough. 

 These Consilia make a great bulk of matter, and one which 

 has not been thoroughly explored. A general account of the 

 Consilia may be read in any good history of medicine, but 

 perhaps the most interesting is to be found in the chapters on 

 medieval medicine in Daremberg's " Histoire et Doctrines " 

 (e.g. torn. I. p. 334 et seq.). 



2 Originally by Fracastorius, Montanus and others, in 

 the former half of the sixteenth century. Caius in England, 

 Mercado in Spain, Baillou in Paris, if not bedside teachers, 

 had done good clinical work, in Consilia and otherwise, in the 

 same century. What Fracastorius did for syphilis, Caius did 

 for the sweating sickness, and Mercado for petechial typhus. 

 Baillou was too dependent upon the letter of tradition. 



