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aeval ? — flavour, and one may be pardoned 

 the regret that the meeting is not being held 

 in May, 1519, to have had the pleasure of 

 listening to an address from a real Oxford 

 scholar-physician, an early teacherof Greek 

 in this University, and the founder of the 

 Royal College of Physicians, whose Rudi- 

 menta Grammatices and De Emendata Struc- 

 tura Latini Sermonis upheld for a genera- 

 tion, on the Continent at least, the reputation 

 of English scholarship. These noble walls, 

 themselves an audience — indeed, most 

 appreciative of audiences — have storied 

 memories of Linacre's voice, and the basis 

 of the keen judgment of Erasmus may have 

 been formed by intercourse with him in this 

 very school. In those happy days, to know 

 Hippocrates and Galen was to know disease 

 and to be qualified to practise ; and my pro- 

 fession looks back in grateful admiration to 

 such great medical humanists as Linacre 

 and Caius and Rabelais. Nor can I claim 



