Gradually Hippocrates and Galen came to their own again.

Almost every professor of medicine became a student of the MSS.

of Aristotle and of the Greek physicians, and before 1530 the presses had poured out a stream of editions.

A wave of enthusiasm swept over the profession, and the best energies of its best minds were devoted to a study of the Fathers.

Galen became the idol of the schools.