A strong revulsion of feeling arose against the Arabians, and Avicenna, the Prince, who had been clothed with an authority only a little less than divine, became anathema.

Under the leadership of the Montpellier School, the Arabians made a strong fight, but it was a losing battle all along the line.

This group of medical humanists--men who were devoted to the study of the old humanities, as Latin and Greek were called--has had a great and beneficial influence upon the profession.

They were for the most part cultivated gentlemen with a triple interest--literature, medicine and natural history.

How important is the part they played may be gathered from a glance at the "Lives" given by Bayle in his "Biographic Medicale" (Paris, 1855) between the years 1500 and 1575.