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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[OAIUS 
Caius (John). 1510-73 
As regards the name of this author, the writer of his 
life in the Diet. Nat. Biog. states that he “ bore a name 
which is generally supposed to be a Latinised form of the 
English name Kaye or Kay.” Willughby and Kay term him 
“ 6 Dr. Kay,” and Lowndes refers to him simply as “ John 
Kay, M.D.” In the British Museum Catalogue he is entered 
as Caius, with a cross reference to that name under “ Kaye, 
John.” We prefer to treat of him here by his more commonly 
accepted designation, Caius. 
Caius was born at Norwich, October 6 , 1510, being the 
son of Robert Caius and Alice ( nee Wodanell) his wife. Eor 
the main facts of his literary career we are chiefly indebted 
to the account given by himself in his sketch, De Libris 
Propriis , written about three years before his death, at 
the request of his friend Thomas Hatcher. He appears 
to have received his early education in his native city, and 
was admitted on September 12, 1529, as a student of Gonville 
Hall in the University of Cambridge, where he devoted 
himself chiefly to classical studies. In .1539 he went to 
Padua, where he appears to have studied science and medicine, 
and in 1541 was created M.D. of that university. He then 
went on a tour through Italy, returning to England in 1544. 
Settling in London, he commenced to deliver a series of 
lectures on anatomy, which he continued during a period 
of twenty years. In 1547 he became a Fellow of the 
College of Physicians, of which he was later many times 
President, and was also one of the physicians to Edward VI. 
and Queen Mary. He was Warden of Gonville and Caius 
College, Cambridge, his name having been added in 1557 as 
a co-founder. He died July 29, 1573, in London. For a 
fuller account of his life vide Diet. Nat. Biog. 
Caius wrote several works on classical, controversial, and 
general subjects, including one on the Sweating Sickness , in 
addition to the work mentioned below (De variorum Ani- 
malium atque Stirpium Historia ), which, according to Lowndes, 
