al" (ii., p. 191).

Beside the grave benefactors of the hospital we hear of serio-comic
personages who remind us of the curious lunatics recorded by de Morgan in
his _Budget of Paradoxes_. Thus in 1774 Mr W. Gardiner offered 2000
pounds to St Bartholomew's "as a sacrifice for God's having put it in his
power to overturn Sir Isaac Newton's system" (ii., p. 245).

From 1547 the treasurer was "a very important officer, but the president
also took an active part in the affairs of the hospital." But now the
treasurer is the responsible head of the administration.

In 1518 the College of Physicians was founded by Henry VIII. (ii., p.
408) on the advice of Dr Thomas Linacre. Its active existence began in
his house in Knightrider Street. The most pious and the most learned men
of England were Linacre's intimate friends, and the "example of his life,
as felt in the College of Physicians, continues a living force to this
day" (ii., p. 411).

Dr John Caius (ii., p. 412) was a devoted follower of Linacre; he was
born 1510, went to Cambridge in 1529, and in 1533 was elected Fellow of
Gonville Hall. In 1539 he went to Padua, where Vesalius, the founder of
modern anatomy, was Professor. In 1547 Caius was admitted a Fellow of
the College of Physicians, and not long after he came to live within St
Bartholomew's Hospital.

Caius wrote on the sweating sickness in 1552, and his work was printed
near St Bartholomew's. "Thus were the proofs of the first medical
monograph in the English tongue, and, indeed, the first book written by
an English physician . . . on a particular disease, corrected in St
Bartholomew's" (ii., p. 418).

Caius was in 1555 elected President of the College of Physicians, to
which he presented their silver caduceus with four serpents at its head,
a book of statutes, and a seal. In 1557-69 he was engaged in the
refoundation and building at Cambridge of what was to be known as
Gonville and Caius College. On his death his viscera were buried in St
Bartholomew's the Less, while the rest of his body was placed in an
alabaster tomb in the chapel of his college with the inscription: "Fui
Caius."

We meet with many proofs of the consideration shown by the authorities
towards the patients. For instance (ii., p. 279):--

13_th March_ 1568.--"This day it is graunted by the courte that Griffen
Davye shall departe forthwith into his countrye, and also that he shall
have 20s. in his purse to bringe him home in cons