John Caius
1510–73
Scholar and physician. Entered Gonville Hall, Cambridge, 1529. Studied Galenic medicine and shared a house with Vesalius at Padua, 1539–41; studied at Pisa and toured the libraries of Italy before returning to England in 1544. Became wealthy as a London physician and gave generously to the College of Physicians and to his former Cambridge college, which was refounded as Gonville and Caius College in 1557. Master of Gonville and Caius College, 1559–73. Author, editor, and translator of Galenic and antiquarian works.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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