John Caius and the Linacre tradition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23229763 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vivian Nutton (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 373-391 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7273 • E-ISSN: 2048-8343 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0025727300052030 |
| PMID | 390265 |
| OpenAlex | W2140449730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
To TALK of Thomas Linacre and John Caius together iti the same paper is almost like commending a saint and a sinner in the same sermon.Linacre is universally praised by his contemporaries and by modem scholars alike, while Caius in his writings and in his daily relationships seems petulant and domineering, with a dislike of Welshmen, whom he excluded from his refounded College along with the blind, the deaf, the halt, the lame, and sufferers from grave or incurable diseases.1 Linacre's achievement was to drag medicine in this country into the sixteenth century; the effect of Caius' example, it is alleged, was firmly to keep it there for a further two centuries.Caius was a reactionary in many ways, of that there is no doubt-his preference for the old rituals and institutions was strengthened by his experience of unruly junior fellows and boisterous undergraduates given to games and drinking, who preferred to spend their money on fashionable clothes that would soon wear out rather than on books that would endure.2Yet his attachment to the past was not just wistful yearning for a bygone age: he was aware of the positive benefits to the present to be gained by adherence to an active tradition, that of the medical humanism of Linacre, whose memory he venerated and whose tomb he repaired and, in his will, commanded his executors to clean and mend.3
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| Citations per year | 0.02 |
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| Citation span | 1984 - 1984 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |