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Title: Gilbertus Anglicus
Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

Author: Henry Ebenezer Handerson

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Language: English

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GILBERTUS ANGLICUS

Medicine of the Thirteenth Century

by

HENRY E. HANDERSON, A.M., M.D.

With a Biography of the Author

Published Posthumously for Private Distribution by
the Cleveland Medical Library Association
Cleveland, Ohio

1918

CONTENTS

Page
Frontispiece 5

Explanatory Foreword 7

Biography 9-14

Resolutions of the Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n 15

Gilbertus Anglicus--A Study of Medicine in the
Thirteenth Century 17-78

[Illustration: HENRY E. HANDERSON]

EXPLANATORY FOREWORD

In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library
received a manuscript from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request
that it be filed for reference in the archives of the library. The
librarian at once recognized the value of the paper and referred it
to the editorial board of the Cleveland Medical Journal, who sought
the privilege of publishing it. Dr. Handerson's consent was secured
and the article was set in type. However, when the time came for its
publication the author was reluctant to have it appear since he was
unable then to read the proof, and because he felt that