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geon placed at his command. When grateful patients forced their gifts on his acceptance, he with quaint humour arranged them all in one large room, and wrote upon the door ‘Lucri neglecti Lucrum,’ which I may perhaps be allowed to render, ‘See what I get by saying No!’
The name of Fabricius is the first subscribed to Harvey’s diploma. Next to it comes that of John Thomas Minadous, an accomplished and much-travelled man, the son and brother of physicians, and they of no mean repute. He passed seven years of his life in the East, and wrote a History of the War between the Sultan and the Shah, a matter then of much more concernment to Europe than at the present day. Next comes the name of Julius Casserius, a native of Piacenza, whom Fabricius took out of compassion as a poor boy to be his lackey. The lad showed parts; Fabricius taught and trained him, for the republic of letters was then no mere phrase; and so from valet he became pupil, from pupil, friend, then colleague of Fabricius, and last of all his successor in the professorial chair. Servitor, Sizar, Taberder—terms and conditions which we have now done away with
