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 physicians refused to adopt the method which he advocated and used their influence in securing from the French Parliament an order forbidding him to continue employing it in Paris. Discouraged by the treatment which he experienced in that city, Brissot removed to Lisbon in Portugal, and soon had occasion (in the epidemic which raged at Evora in 1516) further to satisfy himself that the Hippocratic rule is the correct one. But here too he encountered bitter opposition on the part of the Portuguese physicians; his most active opponent being Dionysius, the Physician-in-Ordinary to the King. Brissot then wrote an elaborate defense of the method which he advocated, and this treatise was submitted to the judgment of the Medical Faculty of the University of Salamanca. When the decision of this learned body was given in Brissot's favor, his opponents, dissatisfied with the result, made still another effort to gain their point, viz., by appealing to the Emperor Charles the Fifth. They assured his Majesty that the Brissot Heresy, as they termed it, was fully as dangerous to the cause of humanity as that championed by Luther. But here again they failed. This final victory, however, brought no satisfaction to Brissot, who died of dysentery in 1522, just before the decision was rendered. Haeser speaks of this unusually bitter dispute as one of the last of the violent battles which occurred between the adherents of the Arabian physicians and the supporters of the teachings of Hippocrates, and which terminated in "a most brilliant victory of experience over Arabian dogmatism."

During the first half of the sixteenth century there developed a belief, among the more ignorant physicians, that, in many cases of illness, important information may be derived from a simple naked-eye inspection of the patent's urine as exposed to view in a flask-shaped glass vessel. In the Hippocratic writings no adequate grounds for such a belief are discoverable, but in one of Galen's treatises there have been found statements which appear(?) to give some sanction to this new idea. However this may be, it is an established fact that uroscopy was taken up at the time named with great zeal by all the quacks in the