all, Cambridge, where he seems to have mainly
studied divinity. After graduating in 1533, he visited Italy, where he
studied under the celebrated Montanus and Vesalius at Padua; and in 1541 he
took his degree in physic at Padua. In 1543 he visited several parts of
Italy, Germany and France; and returned to England. He was a physician in
London in 1547, and was admitted fellow of the College of Physicians, of
which he was for many years president. In 1557, being then physician to
Queen Mary, he enlarged the foundation of his old college, changed the name
from "Gonville Hall" to "Gonville and Caius College," and endowed it with
several considerable estates, adding an entire new court at the expense of
L1834. Of this college he accepted the mastership (24th of January 1558/9)
on the death of Dr Bacon, and held it till about a month before his death.
He was physician to Edward VI., Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. He returned
to Cambridge from London for a few days in June 1573, about a month before
his death, and resigned the mastership to Dr Legge, a tutor at Jesus
College. He died at his London House, in St Bartholomew's, on the 29th
[v.04 p.0961] of July, 1573, but his body was brought to Cambridge, and
buried in the chapel under the well-known monument which he had designed.
Dr Caius was a learned, active and benevolent man. In 1557 he erected a
monument in St Paul's to the memory of Linacre. In 1564 he obtained a grant
for Gonville and Caius College to take the bodies of two malefactors
annually for dissection; he was thus an important pioneer in advancing the
science of anatomy. He probably devised, and certainly presented, the
silver caduceus now in the possession of Caius College as part of its
_insignia_; he first gave it to the College of Physicians, and afterwards
presented the London College with another.

His works are: _Annals of the College from 1555 to 1572_; translation of
several of Galen's works, printed at different times abroad. _Hippocrates
de Medicamenlis_, first discovered and published by Dr Caius; also _De
Ratione Victus_ (Lov. 1556, 8vo). _De Mendeti Methodo_ (Basel, 1554;
London, 1556, 8vo). _Account of the Sweating Sickness in England_ (London,
1556, 1721), (it is entitled _De Ephemera Britannica_). _History of the
University of Cambridge_ (London, 1568, 8vo; 1574, 4to, in Latin). _De
Thermis Britannicis_; but it is doubtful whether this work was ever
printed. _Of some Rare Plants and Animals_ (Lo