Gilbertus Anglicus

Gilbertus Anglicus

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Title: Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
Author: Henry Ebenezer Handerson

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GILBERTUS ANGLICUS
Medicine of the Thirteenth Century
by
HENRY E. HANDERSON, A.M., M.D.
With a Biography of the Author
Published Posthumously for Private Distribution by the Cleveland
Medical Library Association Cleveland, Ohio
1918

CONTENTS
Page Frontispiece 5
Explanatory Foreword 7
Biography 9-14
Resolutions of the Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n 15
Gilbertus Anglicus--A Study of Medicine in the Thirteenth Century
17-78

[Illustration: HENRY E. HANDERSON]

EXPLANATORY FOREWORD

In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library
received a manuscript from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request
that it be filed for reference in the archives of the library. The librarian
at once recognized the value of the paper and referred it to the editorial
board of the Cleveland Medical Journal, who sought the privilege of
publishing it. Dr. Handerson's consent was secured and the article was
set in type. However, when the time came for its publication the author
was reluctant to have it appear since he was unable then to read the
proof, and because he felt that the material present might not be
suitable for publication in a clinical journal. To those who knew him,
this painstaking attention to detail and desire for accuracy presents
itself as a familiar characteristic. Though actual publication was
postponed, the type forms were held, and when the Cleveland Medical
Journal suspended publication, its editorial board informed the Council
of the Cleveland Medical Library Association of the valuable material
which it had been unable to give to the medical world. In the meantime
Dr. Handerson's death had occurred, but the Council obtained the
generous consent of the author's family to make this posthumous
publication. It is hoped that those who read will bear this fact in mind
and will be lenient in the consideration of typographical errors, of
which the author was so fearful.
The Cleveland Medical Library Association feels that it is fortunate in
being enabled to present to its members and to others of the profession
this work of Dr. Handerson's and to create from his own labors a
memorial to him who was once its president.
SAMUEL W. KELLEY. CLYDE L. CUMMER. Committee on
Publication.

BIOGRAPHY
HENRY EBENEZER HANDERSON
Owing to Dr. Handerson's modesty, even we who were for years
associated with him in medical college, in organization, and

professional work, knew but little of him. He would much rather
discuss some fact or theory of medical science or some ancient worthy
of the profession than his own life. Seeing this tall venerable gentleman,
sedate in manner and philosophical in mind, presiding over the
Cuyahoga County Medical Society or the Cleveland Medical Library
Association, few of the members ever pictured him as a fiery, youthful
Confederate officer, leading a charge at a run up-hill over fallen logs
and brush, sounding the "Rebel yell," leaping a hedge and alighting in a
ten-foot ditch among Federal troopers who surrendered to him and his
comrades. Yet this is history. We could perhaps more easily have
recognized him even though in a military prison-pen, on finding him
dispelling the tedium by teaching his fellow prisoners Latin and Greek,
or perusing a precious volume of Herodotus.
Henry Ebenezer Handerson was born on March 21, 1837, here in
Cuyahoga county, in the township of Orange, near the point now
known as "Handerson's Cross-Roads," on the Chagrin river. His
mother's maiden name was Catharine Potts. His father was Thomas
Handerson, son of Ira Handerson. The family immigrated to Ohio from
Columbia county, New York, in 1834. Thos. Handerson died as the
result of an accident in 1839, leaving the widow with five children, the
eldest thirteen years of age, to support. Henry and a sister were adopted
by an uncle, Lewis Handerson, a druggist, of Cleveland. In spite of a
sickly childhood the boy went to school a part of the time and at the
age of fourteen was sent to a boarding school, Sanger Hall, at
New-Hartford, Oneida county, New York. Henry's