The mediaeval mind still dominates: of the sixty-seven authors of one hundred and eighty-two editions of early medical books, twenty-three were men of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, thirty men of the fifteenth century, eight wrote in Arabic, several were of the School of Salernum, and only six were of classical antiquity, viz., Pliny (first 1469), Hippocrates (1473) (Hain (*)7247), Galen (1475) (Hain 7237), Aristotle (1476), Celsus (1478), and Dioscorides (1478).( **) (*) This asterisk is used by Hain to indicate that he had seen a copy .-- Ed.
(**) Data added to a manuscript taken from the author's summary on "Printed Medical Books to 1480" in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, London, 1916, XIII, 5-8, revised from its "News-Sheet" (February, 1914).

"Of neither Hippocrates nor Galen is there an early edition; but in 1473 at Pavia appeared an exposition of the Aphorisms of Hippoerates, and in 1475 at Padua an edition of the Tegni or Notes of Galen." Ibid., p.

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Osler's unfinished Illustrated Monograph on this subject is now being printed for the Society of which he was President .-- Ed.
The medical profession gradually caught the new spirit.

It has been well said that Greece arose from the dead with the New Testament in the one hand and Aristotle in the other.

There was awakened a perfect passion for the old Greek writers, and with it a study of the original sources, which had now become available in many manuscripts.