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By C. D. O'Malley. Price, $2. Pp 54, with no illustrations. The University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kan, 1965.

William B. Bean, MD, Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1966;117(4):587.

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O'Malley's "Clendening Lectures," 12th in the series, constitute an admirable tribute to Logan Clendening by giving a thoughtful analysis and evocation of Thomas Linacre and John Caius. Linacre, one of Osler's favorites, was both a scholar and churchman as was his successor John Caius. Both Linacre and Caius were figures of large scope in the period when English medicine was beginning to emerge and both were widely recognized for their participation in the classical restoration of Greek medicine. They actually read Greek texts on the continent. At home there was no audience. The failure at home may be responsible for or simply diagnostic of the fact that English medicine was pretty largely parasitic on continental medicine until the 17th century.

That it took so long for English medicine to make any progress of its own at all resulted from the repressive rules of the Church. The Church hated blood and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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