John Caius

John Caius (November 6, 1510 - July 29, 1573), English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was born at Norwich on the 6th of November 1510.

Works by Caius

His works are:

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• Annals of the College from 1555 to 1572
• translation of several of Galen's works, printed at different times abroad.
• Hippocrates de Medicamentis, first discovered and published by Dr Caius; also De Ratsone Vicius (Lov. 1556, 8vo)
• De Mendeti Methodo (Basel, 1554; London, 1556, Svo)
• Account of the Sweating Sickness in England (London, 1556, 1721), (it is entitled De Ephemera Britannica)
• History of the University of Cambridge (London, 1568, 8vo; 1574, 4to, in Latin)
• De Thermis Britannicis; but it is doubtful whether this 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.

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For further details see the Biographical History of Caius College, an admirable piece of historical work, by Dr John Venn (1897).

Related Topics:
John Venn - 1897

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This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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