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Guy de Chauliac
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“Socrates is our friend, and Plato is our friend; but the truth is even more our friend.”
Guy de Chauliac (1300–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inventarium sive chirurgia magna (1480), ch. 1, as quoted in Charles Scott Sherrington, Man On His Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1940), p. 63
“It was seemingly from books that he learned his surgery...He may have used the knife when embalming the bodies of dead popes, but he was careful to avoid it on living patients.”
Guy de Chauliac (1300–1368) said by 1368 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Charles H. Talbot, in David C. Lindberg, Science in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 1978), p. 410
“The great death toll began in our case in the month of January [1348], and lasted for the space of seven months. It was of two kinds: the first lasted two months; with continuous fever and spitting of blood; and death occurred within three days. The second lasted for the whole of the remainder of the time, also with continuous fever, and with ulcers and boils in the extremities, principally under the arm-pits and in the groin; and death took place within five days. And [it] was of so great a contagion (especially when there was spitting of blood) that not only through living in the same house but merely through looking, one person caught it from the other.”
Guy de Chauliac (1300–1368) first seen 1346 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Describing the Black Death to the papal court in Avignon, as quoted in Ole Jørgen Benedictow, The Black Death, 1346–1353: The Complete History (Boydell Press, 2004), p. 236