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 14 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. was sending some of these books, lie says, " I present you with the works of Galen, now, by the help of Linacre, speaking better Latin than they ever before spoke Greek." In the British Mu- seum there are two copies of Linacre's translation of the fourteen books of Galen's Methodns Me- dendi. They are in the finest possible condition, and are the presentation copies of Henry VIII. and Cardinal Wolsey. The title of the king's copy is illuminated with the royal arms ; that of Wo!- sey's is decorated with the cardinal's hat. On the binding of his majesty's are the royal arms and motto impressed. The dedication to the car- dinal is in manuscript ; they are both on spotless vellum. Linacre died in great agony from the stone, October 20, 1524, aged sixty-four; and was bu- ried in St. Paul's cathedral, where a monument was afterwards erected to his memory by his ad- mirer and successor in fame, Dr. Caius.