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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

JOHN OF GADDESDEN (1280 – 1361)

1280 – 1361

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1492

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Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.

JOHN OF GADDESDEN (1280 – 1361) SCYLLACIUS, Nicolaus (1464 – )

The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries and countrysi…