Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

Gallenus. 22.

GAlenus was a noble Phisicion, borne in Pergamo, sonne of Nicon a great Geometriciā. In the arte of Phisicke he excel∣led all other before his time, and sence: In so much, as in his ministration, counsell, or doctrine, he neuer had reproch, as he him selfe writeth. Also, liuing (as some do write) as good as an hun∣dreth yeares, after he passed the age of eightene yeares, vntill the tyme of his death, he was neuer vexed with any sickenes, except the grudge of a a feuer of one day, as he sayth in his worke, De sanitate tuenda, and that happened onely by to much labour. He florished in the tyme of Marcus Comodus, and dyed onely for feablenes of age, after the incarnation of Christ about .160. yeares. He was famous at Rome, and is thought to haue excelled all men in that arte (Hippocrates excepted) for that he composed many bookes, and with a wonderfull wit expounded all Hip∣pocrates workes. For the Grecians do say, that he put forth .150. bookes of that facultie, and therfore this sentence was very notable. Scientia in in∣sensato non prodest, nec ei qui non vtitur prodest sensus. Science in a senselesse man, doth not profit, nor sense profiteth hym that cannot vse it.

* 1.1Galen in his booke of simple medicines speaketh of a straunge expe∣riment whiche he practised by a peece of olde chese. VVhen I had (sayd he) in tymes past chese brought vnto my table, which was of a very tarte tast, I cast it awaye, and my seruauntes spente it, and did eate it among them. But they being wont to saue such meates, brought within short space after out of the spence or buttry, of the same chese agayn, and as∣ked what I would commaund to be done with it. And because it could not be eaten, for the tartenes therof, we merely being disposed, did propose to what purpose or vse any mā could put it. In the meane tyme of our talke, a certayne man diseased with the goute, was brought vnto me in a cha∣riot, hauing goutishe knobbes vpon his ioyntes. It came to my minde to proue a practise. I commaunded the chese and a gambon of bacon to be sod together, and to be poūded well in a morter, that it might be plaisterlike, and to lay it on the partes grieued. And truly the sickeman was very well

holpen by this medicine, for the skinne being broken of it owne accorde, that is to say, without cuttyng, the pieces of the knottes fell of dayly with out grief. And when all the chese that I had was spent, the sicke man bieng him an other chese of the same tast, saued it, for to occupy after∣ward about hys old disease. And when he tooke the same commoditie therby agayne, he perseuered to occupy the same oftener, and taught it certayne of his frendes being likewise diseased. And that thing truly did we inuent newly, whiche experience proued and confirmed afterwarde to be good.

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  Lib. 10.