CAIUS [Anglice KEES, KEYS, etc.], JOHN (1510-1573)

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CAIUS [Anglice KEES, KEYS, etc.], JOHN (1510-1573) , English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College,

Cambridge

, was born at Norwich on the 6th of October 1510. He was admitted a student at what was then Gonville

Hall

Cambridge

, where he seems to have mainly studied divinity. After graduating in 1533, he visited Italy, where he studied under the celebrated Montanus and Vesalius at Padua; and in 1541 he took his degree in physic at Padua. In 1543 he visited several parts of Italy, Germany and France; and re-turned to England. He was a physician in London in 1547, and was admitted fellow of the College of Physicians, of which he was for many years president. In 1557, being then physician to Queen Mary, he enlarged the foundation of his old college, changed the name from " Gonville

Hall

" to " Gonville ilnd Caius College," and endowed it with several considerable estates, adding an entire new court at the expense of 1834. Of this college he accepted the mastership (24th of January x558/9) on the death of Dr Bacon, and held it till about a month before his death. He was physician to Edward VI., Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. He returned to Cambridge from London for a few days in June 1573, about a month before his death, and resigned the mastership to Dr

Legge

LEGGE
LEGGE, JAMES (1815-1897)

, a tutor at Jesus College. He died at his London

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, in St Bartholomew's, on the 29th
of July, 1573, but his

body

BODY

was brought to Cambridge, and buried in the chapel under the well-known monument which he had designed. Dr Caius was a learned, active and benevolent man. In 1557 he erected a monument in St Paul's to the memory of Linacre. In 1564 he obtained a grant for Gonville and Caius College to take the bodies of two malefactors annually for dissection; he was thus an important

pioneer

PIONEER

in advancing the science of anatomy. He probably devised, and certainly presented, the silver caduceus now in the possession of Caius College as part of its insignia; he first gave it to the College of Physicians, and afterwards presented the London College with another.
His works are: Annals of the College from 1555 to 1372; translation of several of Galen's works, printed at different times abroad. Hippocrates de Medicamentis, first discovered and published by Dr Caius; also De Ratione Victus (Lov. 1556, 8vo). De Mendeti Methodo (Basel, 1554; London, 1556, 8vo). Account of the Sweating Sickness in England (London, 1556, 1721), (it is entitled De Ephemera Britannica). History of the University of Cambridge (London, 1568, Svo; 1574, 4t0, in Latin). De Thermis Britannicis; but it is doubtful whether this

work

WORK

was ever printed. Of some Rare Plants and Animals (London, 1570). De Canibus Britannicis (1570, 1729). De Pronunciatione Graecae et Latinae Linguae (London, 1574) ; De Libris propriis (London, 1570). He also wrote numerous other works which were never printed.
For further details see the Biographical History of Caius College, an admirable piece of historical

work

WORK

, by Dr John Venn (1897).

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