A Century of Medicine at Padua. By Sir George Newman.
British Periodicals. Is.)—Fair Padua, nursery of arts, cele- brates next week the seventh centenary of the foundation of the University by students seceding from Bologna. Sir George Newman in this attractive essay summarizes the work done in medicine at Padua during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, especially by our countrymen. Thomas Linacre, the founder of the College of Physicians, John Caius, who re- founded Gonville and Caius College and was Queen Elizabeth's physician, and William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, were the three most famous Englishmen who studied at the University of Vesalius and Galileo. We are glad to know that a representative English delegation is attending the festivities at Padua, where the ancient University continues to flourish.
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