s
appreciative of Dr. Handerson's medico-historical labors, one from Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes expresses high praise and requests to have sent
to him everything which Dr. Handerson might in future write.

It seems eminently appropriate that the essay on "Gilbertus Anglicus."
the last from the pen of Dr. Handerson, should be put in book form,
together with a sketch, however brief, of its author's earnest life,
his sterling character, his geniality and imperturbable equanimity,
and thus preserved in testimony of the high esteem in which he was
held by his contemporaries.

SAMUEL WALTER KELLEY.

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RESOLUTIONS

At a meeting of the Council of the Cleveland Medical Library
Association, held on May 14, the following resolutions were adopted:

_Resolved_, That in the death of Dr. Henry E. Handerson the Cleveland
Medical Library Association has sustained the loss of one of its most
honored and devoted members. His scholarly acquirements were notable,
and his eminence as a medical historian generally recognized. His deep
interest in the welfare of the Library and his thorough attention to
every detail of his official duties were always evident, while his
lovable personal qualities endeared him to all.

The Association desires to express its high appreciation of his long
and valued services, and extends to his bereaved family its heartfelt
and sincere sympathy.

C.A. HAMANN,
WM. EVANS BRUNER,
J.B. McGEE.

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GILBERTUS ANGLICUS (GILBERT OF ENGLAND)

A STUDY OF ENGLISH MEDICINE IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

BY H.E. HANDERSON, A.M., M.D.

CLEVELAND

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"Nothing in the past is dead to the man who would learn how
the present came to be what it is."--Stubbs--_Constitutional
Hist. of England_.

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Among the literary monuments of early English medicine the "Compendium
Medicinae" of Gilbertus Anglicus merits a prominent position as the
earliest complete treatise on general medicine by an English author
which has been preserved to our day, and equally because it forms in
itself a very complete mirror of the medical science of its age and
its country.

Gilbert was undoubtedly one of the most famous physicians of his time.
His reputation is recognized in those well-known lines of Chaucer
which catalogue the "authorit