ZOOLOGY IN TIME OF SHAKESPEARE 229 

 France, Vesalius trusted the written word of 

 Galen more than he trusted his own eyesight, 

 but in the end his sight and his reason conquered, 

 and at last he taught only what he himself could 

 see and make his students see. 



Vesalius was the founder of modern anatomy, 

 physiology, and, I think we may say, also of 

 modern zoology, for the methods of these sciences 

 are one. His great work on " The Structure of 

 the Human Body " appeared at Basle in 1543, 

 and was beginning to have influence in England, 

 but only amongst the learned, well before Shake- 

 speare was born. 



His English pupils, amongst whom was John 

 Caius the third, founder of Gonville and Caius 

 College, helped to spread his methods and prin- 

 ciples in this country. Amongst the many pupils 

 of John Caius we may mention Thomas Moffett. 

 Few men in those days lived much over fifty 

 years, and Moffett, born in 1553, died in 1604. 

 He joined Trinity College in 1569, but migrated 

 to Caius in 1572, where he was nearly poisoned 

 by eating mussels. After taking his M.A. degree, 

 he, as was the habit of the time, studied abroad 

 and received in 1578 the degree of M.D. at Basle, 

 where he was a pupil of Felix Plater and of Zwinger. 



