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the latter sold again at a large profit, and this panacea was simply a mixture 

 of frogs pounded up in a mortar ; he pompously advertised infallible and secret 

 remedies, in which he placed so little 1 confidence that he took care to exact 

 payment for them beforehand (Fig. 107). In one of his books there is a 



Fig. 107. Interior of a Doctor's House. Fiic-simile of a Miniature from the ''Epistre deOthea," 

 by Christine de Pisau. Manuscript of tho Fifteenth Century. In the Burgundy Library, 

 Brussels. 



short chapter upon dixnijrceaUe diseases, as he terms them, which work their 

 own cure, and, therefore, bring no grist to the. doctor's mill. 



Several great epidemics, the terrible effects of which are alluded to by 

 Guy de Chauliac and his contemporary Petrarch, had caused great consterna- 

 tion throughout Europe, and gave rise to the idea of establishing a medical 



