The gold-headed cane . ities he enjoyedwith great diligence and success. At Flor-ence, under Demetrius Chalcondylas, who hadfled from Constantinople when it was taken bythe Turks, he acquired a perfect knowledge ofthe Greek language. He studied eloquence at Bologna underPolitian, one of the most elegant Latinists inEurope; and while he was at Rome he de-voted himself to medicine and the study ofnatural philosophy, under Hermolaus Bar-baras. Linacre was the first Englishman whoread Aristotle and Galen in the original his return to England, having taken thedegree of at Oxford, he g
The gold-headed cane . ities he enjoyedwith great diligence and success. At Flor-ence, under Demetrius Chalcondylas, who hadfled from Constantinople when it was taken bythe Turks, he acquired a perfect knowledge ofthe Greek language. He studied eloquence at Bologna underPolitian, one of the most elegant Latinists inEurope; and while he was at Rome he de-voted himself to medicine and the study ofnatural philosophy, under Hermolaus Bar-baras. Linacre was the first Englishman whoread Aristotle and Galen in the original his return to England, having taken thedegree of at Oxford, he gave lectures inphysic, and taught the Greek language in thatuniversity. His reputation soon became sohigh, that King Henry VII. called him tocourt, and intrusted him with the care of thehealth and education of his son Prince show the extent of his acquirements, I maymention, that he instructed Princess Catherinein the Italian language, and that he publisheda work on mathematics, which he dedicated to MEAD. 83. his pupil Prince Arthur. A treatise on gram-mar, which has universally been acknowledgedto be a work of great erudition, is from the penof Linacre: Melancthon, indeed, pronouncesit to be inferior to none of its kind then ex-tant. In his own style he reminds one of theelegance of Terence, and in his medical * From a Portrait of Linacre by Holbein, in Kensing-ton Palace, a copy of which hangs over the fireplace inthe Censors Room of the College of Physicians. 84 MEAD. treatises very nearly approaches the clear andperspicuous language of Celsus. Linacre was successively Physician toHenry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Ed-ward the Sixth, and to the Princess established lectures on physic in both Uni-versities ; and he was the founder of our RoyalCollege of Physicians, of which he was the firstPresident, holding that office during the lastseven years of his life. He was indeed, saidMead, a most accomplished scholar: theLatin style of Linacre is so pure and el
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